117 Quotes by Jay McInerney

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

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

There she is, as eligible a candidate as you’re likely to find this late in the game. The sexual equivalent of fast food.

But what you are left with is a premonition of the way your life will fade behind you, like a book you have read too quickly, leaving a dwindling trail of images and emotions, until all you can remember is a name.

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

The candor was infectious. It spread back to the beginning of your life. You tried to tell her, as well as you could, what it was like being you. You described the feeling you’d always had of being misplaced, of always standing to one side of yourself, of watching yourself in the world even as you were being in the world, and wondering if this was how everyone felt. That you always believed that other people had a clearer idea of what they were doing, and didn’t worry quite so much about why.

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

Everything becomes symbol and irony when you’ve been betrayed.

Growing up meant admitting you couldn’t have everything.