117 Quotes by Jay McInerney

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

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.

Mine is not an autonomous imagination.

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

It's the cynics who never get married.

I realized that I might not ever make it as a writer, that it might be because I wasn't good enough, or that it might be because the odds were just too long.

You know, Im always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.

I was fortunate to get a lot of mileage out of my vices . . . The point is not to be debilitated by your pleasures. Maybe I have lucky genes or something but I've never been truly addicted to anything, except pleasure in general.

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