The only thing worse for smoking than drinking is quitting drinking. Because then it's the only thing you can do.
Jay McInerneyDelia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing
Jay McInerneyI 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.
Jay McInerneyYou 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.
Jay McInerney