The 20th century saw far greater catastrophes than September 11th, as bad as it was, and they didn't render literature or art or music irrelevant. In…

- Jay Mcinerney

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

- Jay Mcinerney

There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.

- Jay Mcinerney

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

- Jay Mcinerney

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist…

- Jay Mcinerney

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

- Jay Mcinerney

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

- Jay Mcinerney

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

- Jay Mcinerney

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. T…

- Jay Mcinerney