Jay McInerney Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Suffering is supposed to be the raw stuff of art.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.

If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers have died and rotted, it's probably Burgundy.

Yeah, 'Gossip Girl' is a good show. It's a real New York show, like 'Sex and the City.'

Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed

Sometimes you feel like the only man in the city without group affiliation.

When you catch yourself lying to your therapist, you know it's a waste of money.

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

Great minds sink alike, right?

Taste is a matter of taste.

The level of the room keeps changing. All of the surfaces swell and recede with oceanic rhytm. You are not quite all right. You are somewhat wrong.

Love is recreational, it needs not be aspirational

I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.

It's the cynics who never get married.

Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren't.

A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.

Mine is not an autonomous imagination.

You have a bad memory for details. You can tell her the date of the Spanish Armada, but you couldn't even guess at the balance of your checkbook.

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

There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like that.

There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.

Here you are again. All messed up and no place to go.

Love is the eternal quest: almost everyone wants to love and be loved.

I don't think I've left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I've had has not been into double digits.

When the train begins to move they return to their Posts and their private sorrows.

You are a republic of voices tonight. Unfortunately, that republic is Italy.