Explore Quotes by Jonathan Ames

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

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

There's no shortage of material in life.

I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.

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

I promote my own self-hatred.

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

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

I don't have ADD, but I only like to pay attention to the things I like to pay attention to, and things like getting a TV and getting the cable working are beyond me, and so I let such things lapse, sometimes for years. This applies to keeping my apartment clean.

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

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

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.

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.

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've always liked police-blotter kind of writing, or the writing of a policeman, right to the point and hardboiled. That's how I see at least the prose elements of scriptwriting.

I have very few hobbies. In fact, I have no hobbies.

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 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.

How terrible to be alcoholic. You just want to quietly soothe and maybe poison yourself, but you end up poisoning those around you as well, like trying to commit suicide with a gas oven and unwittingly murdering your neighbors.

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

I wondered where the person was who had taken my place, who wanted to know what news people had been told. I'm always looking for the person who replaces me, who thinks the things I do, who fills in for me when I'm not there. I know there is someone younger than me doing what I did and someone older doing what I will do, and someone my age being just like me.