117 Quotes by Jay McInerney

I remain a fan of my friend Bret Easton Ellis’s ‘American Psycho.’ I think as a book about New York in the ’80s it was pretty excellent.

Bottles of wine aren’t like paintings. At some point you have to consume them. The object in life is to die with no bottles of wine in your cellar. To drink your last bottle of wine and go to sleep that night and not wake up.

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

I don’t want to have my life fall apart for my work.

It’s the cynics who never get married.

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

You are the kind of guy who always hopes for a miracle at the last minute.

The problem is, for some reason you think you are going to meet the kind of girl who is not the kind of girl who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning.

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