If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers have died and rotted, it's probably Burgundy.
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 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
I'm a romantic; you have to be to marry four times. - Jay Mcinerney
I'm a romantic; you have to be to marry four times.
When you catch yourself lying to your therapist, you know it's a waste of money. - Jay Mcinerney
When you catch yourself lying to your therapist, you know it's a waste of money.
Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash. - Jay Mcinerney
Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.
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
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…
The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families. - Jay Mcinerney
The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.
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
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.
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
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…
The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me. - Jay Mcinerney
The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.
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