F. Scott Fitzgerald(1896-1940)

Eight years after his death, his wife Zelda Fitzgerald died in a fire at the mental hospital where she was a voluntary patient. Contrary to popular myth, Zelda spent less than nine months at mental hospitals during the ten years after Scott's death.

[on alcohol] It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.