111 Quotes by Jonathan Ames

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.

Unfortunately, I'm one of those idiots who knows everything about health and is in a constant state of alarm, and yet I continue to do everything I shouldn't do.

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

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.

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

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

From age 23 to 44 - I'm 45 now - I was always in need of money, and I was especially in need of it from 23 to about 34, and my great aunt would always give me money, a hundred bucks, every two months or so, and a lot of times that hundred bucks made a huge difference - I could eat or pay a small bill. It kept me going. She gave me money. It was very loving.

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