I wish I was the kind of writer who would go to a war zone and write about something that's meaningful and important to people, but that's not my area of coverage. Jonathan Ames
I don't mind being ridiculed - well, I guess I would mind a little, but it would only last a few minutes - it's all very ephemeral; it doesn't really matter what people think of me. Jonathan Ames
I don't know that I've gotten much feedback directly from the literary world; sometimes I doubt even the notion that there is a literary world, though I guess there is or was. Jonathan Ames
A lot of writers, probably because they're sensitive, which makes them want to be writers, have fears about their masculinity, so they overcompensate by having an interest in boxing and tough-guy things. 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
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 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 don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way. 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
Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth. 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
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