Jonathan Ames Quotes
Top 41 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jonathan Ames
Jonathan Ames Famous Quotes & Sayings
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It's hard to leave New York: this is where my friends are, my parents are. It is so vital. The whole world seems to look to New York.
Insightful and heartbreaking, but also wonderfully comedic in its gutsy honesty. A beautiful and powerful memoir.
I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them.
Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because you had a show in the first place.
I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.
Mostly I have to try to censor myself so as not to write things that will hurt other people, or that will go too far.
I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.
I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.
I know I experience great consolation when my mouth is between a woman's legs. I think it must be because I'm drinking in her happiness.
I was deeply depressed. I felt my brain slipping out of its casing and down my neck, like an egg sliding on a frying pan. So
I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence.
It's not easy taking care of one's self, determining nap lengths and all that, but with two people it's a manageable job.
The reason it's hard for me to tweet is I don't want to pronounce anything, and Twitter is for pronouncing.
I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.
People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.
I'm a somewhat isolated person in my own way, or I move along a little trail, I go this place, I go that place. It's not like I'm varying my exposure.
Then again, the name, the associations with a writer's name, can add to the reader's entertainment and pleasure.
I've always been inspired by Don Quixote as a role model of sorts, of the power of books to sort of make you insane in maybe a beautiful way.