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There's no shortage of material in life. — Jonathan Ames

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. — Jonathan Ames

I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself. — Jonathan Ames

Insightful and heartbreaking, but also wonderfully comedic in its gutsy honesty. A beautiful and powerful memoir. — Jonathan Ames

Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth. — Jonathan Ames

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. — Jonathan Ames

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. — Jonathan Ames

I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private. — Jonathan Ames

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. — Jonathan Ames

I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood. — Jonathan Ames

A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape. — Jonathan Ames

I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college. — Jonathan Ames

It's very hard not to commit cancer suicide in America. — Jonathan Ames

I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way. — Jonathan Ames

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. — Jonathan Ames

For me, the past is dead. Can't go back. — Jonathan Ames

To write about a place, you have to live there. — Jonathan Ames

I hid my underwear beneath a parked Peugeot. — Jonathan Ames

It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long. — Jonathan Ames

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. — Jonathan Ames

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 — Jonathan Ames

I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence. — Jonathan Ames

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. — Jonathan Ames

The reason it's hard for me to tweet is I don't want to pronounce anything, and Twitter is for pronouncing. — Jonathan Ames

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. — Jonathan Ames

Essentially I'm a pantheist-agnostic. I worship many deities with equal amounts of confusion. — Jonathan Ames

I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldn't write. — Jonathan Ames

I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me. — Jonathan Ames

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. — Jonathan Ames

I promote my own self-hatred. — Jonathan Ames

People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused. — Jonathan Ames

Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language. — Jonathan Ames

As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that. — Jonathan Ames

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. — Jonathan Ames

I have very few hobbies. In fact, I have no hobbies. — Jonathan Ames

There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly. — Jonathan Ames

It was another sunny day, good for skin cancer and playing tennis. — Jonathan Ames

Then again, the name, the associations with a writer's name, can add to the reader's entertainment and pleasure. — Jonathan Ames

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. — Jonathan Ames

A lot of readers have actually helped me, been really sweet to me ... So maybe my cry for help has sometimes been answered. — Jonathan Ames

I don't like to publicly acknowledge being a Jew. — Jonathan Ames