117 Quotes by Jay McInerney

You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for the universal solvent, stop grieving. You will learn to compound happiness out of small increments of mindless pleasure.

He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.

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

Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.

Great minds sink alike, right?

'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.

I love to imagine inside the head of a woman.

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.

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