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

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

- Jonathan Ames

Personally, I've never had it as a goal in life to be happy. Seems impossible to achieve. Even the Declaration of Independence seems to acknowledge t…

- Jonathan Ames

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

- 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 enjoy both TV writing and novel writing, and they are very similar. The goal is to entertain and amuse the audience, and I subscribe to this P.G. W…

- Jonathan Ames

I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldnt write.

- 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