Jay McInerney Quotes

Under the spell of alcohol your differences recede.

He looks out the window at the falling snow, then turns and takes his wife in his arms, feeling grat...

It's like, you can't trust anybody, and if somebody you know doesn't fuck you over it's just because...

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

I'm a romantic you have to be to marry four times.

Memories lurk like dustballs in the backs of drawers. The stereo is a special model that plays only ...

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of...

I'd urge you to try German Riesling because it's delicious, but I fear you'll be more impressed if I...

The intercom buzzes while you're changing your shirt. You push the Talk button: "Who is it?" "Narcot...

For a few weeks you got up at six to compose short stories at the kitchen table with while Amanda sl...

This is shaping up even worse than you anticipated. Still, you feel a measure of detachment, as if y...

You are the stuff of which consumer profiles – American Dream: Educated Middle-Class Model – are mad...

You never stopped thinking of yourself as a writer biding his time in the Department of Factual Veri...

You have always wanted to be a writer. Getting the job at the magazine was only your first step towa...

The night has already turned on that imperceptible pivot where two A.M. changes to six A.M. You know...

Your brain at this moment is composed of brigades of tiny Bolivian soldiers. They are tired and mudd...

The level of the room keeps changing. All of the surfaces swell and recede with oceanic rhytm. You a...