Iluta Abolina’s Reviews > The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions > Status Update

"He wanted to be Fitzgerald and Gatsby both, the dreamer and the dream. Didn’t we all?..The brain is the body, and the body lives in the present[-]all there is ..castles in the air were fine places to live—all you had to do was put foundations under them—but..how much harder it was to build down than up[!]..mental illness[-]the indispensable elixir of literary theory[:]the vermouth, the gin, the olive, and the glass.