Jay McInerny: Bright Lights, Big City

Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed.


Your heartbreak is just another version of the same old story.


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


There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.


“Taste ... is a matter of taste.”


Tad's mission in life is to have more fun than anyone else in New York City, and this involves a lot of moving around, since there is always the likelihood that where you aren't is more fun than where you are.