Quotes from Jay McInerney

She said that certain facts are accessible only from one point of view--the point of view of the creature who experiences them. You think she meant that the only shoes we can ever wear are our own. Meg can't imagine what it's like for you to be you, she can only imagine herself being you.

There she is, as eligible a candidate as you're likely to find this late in the game. The sexual equivalent of fast food.

The level of the room keeps changing. All of the surfaces swell and recede with oceanic rhytm. You are not quite all right. You are somewhat wrong.

Sometimes you feel like the only man in the city without group affiliation.

Growing up meant admitting you couldn't have everything.

Then all the lights go out. As we follow him through the course of a frenzied week, we discover that beyond the frolic and wondrous prospects this young man has, essentially, nothing. The question is, which is worse: living an illusion, or losing it?

Go Home. Cut your losses. Stay. Go for it. You are a republic of voices tonight. Unfortunately, that republic is Italy. All these voices waving their arms and screaming at one another.

From the window, Luke looked out over the water towers of Fifth Avenue to the park, studying the senescence of the daylight, which seemed almost viscous, ready to coagulate—trying to register that perfect moment of transition from day to evening, that instant when the light, in dying, was most nearly itself.

Love is recreational, it needs not be aspirational

The sound of the tumblers in the locks of your apartment door puts you in mind of dungeons. The place is haunted. Just this morning you found a makeup brush beside the toilet. Memories lurk like dustballs at the backs of drawers. The stereo is a special model that plays only music fraught with poignant associations.

Your brain at this moment is composed of brigades of tiny Bolivian soldiers. They are tired and muddy from their long march through the night. There are holes in their boots and they are hungry. They need to be fed. The need the Bolivian Marching Powder.

men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them. Where does that leave us, she asked lightly. In a Zen garden. Green and yellow mosses, raked gravel. Silence.

You have a bad memory for details. You can tell her the date of the Spanish Armada, but you couldn't even guess at the balance of your checkbook.

It's the Abstract Expressionist approach to publishing. Throw ink at paper. Hope for pattern to emerge.

It's a very long penis Johnny has, and a smooth one, smooth as ivory. She compliments him on it and he says thank you. But they have to hide it. It is too big to hide under the sheets, and it keeps getting bigger as she talks about it and touches it. It's so big that it disappears over the edge of the bed and out the window.

Gyermekkorodban, ahogy nÅ'ttél, úgy erÅ'södött benned a gyanú, hogy mindenki más be van avatva valami alapvetÅ' titokba, mely elÅ'tted zárva maradt. A többiek mind tudták, hogy mit csinálnak.

Alex hadn't been clubbing in several years. After he and Lydia moved in together, the clubs lost their appeal. Now he felt the return of the old thrill, the anticipation of the hunt—the sense that the night held secrets bound to be unveiled before it was over. Tasha was talking about someone in New York whom Alex was supposed to know. "The last time I saw him, he just kept banging his head against the wall, and I said to him, 'Michael, you've really got to

When the train begins to move they return to their Posts and their private sorrows.

Van bizonyos szakadt méltóság a magányos bukásban.

Egy magánkönyvtár a jellemanalízis kincsesbányája.

Lassan kell járnod. Újra kell tanulnod mindent.

Some things never change. Death, taxes —and somebody always pays for lunch.

You keep meaning to cultivate an expertise in spectator sport. More and more you realize that sports trivia is crucial to male camaraderie. You keenly feel your ignorance. You are locked out of the largest fraternity in the country.

You will have to go slowly. You will have to learn everything all over again.