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Jonathan Ames Biography

Jonathan Ames (born March 23, 1964) is an American author who has written a number of novels and comic memoirs, and is the creator of two television series, Bored to Death (HBO) and Blunt Talk (STARZ). In the late '90s and early 2000s, he was a columnist for the New York Press for several years, and became known for self-deprecating tales of his sexual misadventures. He also has a long-time interest in boxing, appearing occasionally in the ring as "The Herring Wonder".

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Don't hold me to anything in the book. I'm a waffler. I like wafflers. They said John Kerry was a waffler, but I admired him for that - showed he could change his mind.

Admired, Book, Mind, Said, Wafflers

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

Actually, People, Perception, Self, Shy

One last thing on objectives - I like to make things, create things, so that's probably been the primary objective all along, even before the ego objective - to make. To record. But why record. . . that gets back to the ego, a little. Oh, well. Making is good. I like to make things.

Ego, Gets, Littles, Primary, Records, Things

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.

Cliffs, Edge, Fall, Mobile, Recognise, Trajectory

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

Book, Books, Entertain, Humorous, Laugh, Laughing

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. Wodehouse piece of advice: "Try to give pleasure with every sentence. "

Writing, Giving, Goal, Wodehouse, Enjoy, Sentence

I grew up in northern New Jersey - the banlieue of New York - and I now live in Brooklyn. I am separated from my parents by about 50 miles, but really there is almost no distance between us. I speak to them nearly every day.

Distance, Live, Nearly, New York, Northern, Parent

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.

Alarms, Constant, Continue, Idiot, States, Unfortunately

I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.

Briefly, Destiny, Giving, Kind, Moving, Toward

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

Confused, Expect, Know, Literature, People

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.

Maybe, Poison, Soothe, Suicide, Trying

I'm also not sure that I look up to others as knowing what the hell is going on, except maybe Andre Agassi, who, when I interviewed him, while covering the U. S. Open, seemed to know what was going on. My basic assumption is that we're all confused all the time. Some people do act more confident, though. Maybe they aren't confused. I am. I'm confused.

Assumption, Confused, Interviewed, Knowing, People

I hid my underwear beneath a parked Peugeot.

Beneath, Hid, Parked, Peugeot, Underwear

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

Action, Down, Landscape, See, Terms, Writing

It was one of those days when every time I went to go out the door, something grabbed me in the back of the brain and said, lie down and masturbate one more time.

Brain, Doors, Down, Lie, Lying, Masturbate

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

College, Generations, Live, People, Vast

I didn't think I was in a morbid mood, but it appears I am. My mind goes round and round trying to figure things out, but I always come back to the same two things: Loneliness and Death. Life ends before we figure anything out, most importantly how not to be lonely. Solitude is fine. But feeling like you have no one to love - abject lonliness - is not alright.

Lonely, Loneliness, Thinking, Back, Ends, Appears

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

Hard, Long, Takes, Think, Thinking, Writing

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.

Beautiful, Book, Insane, Role, Role Models, Way

I wish we had a dog in the show so that I could get to be a dog for a day.

Dog, Show, Shows, Wish

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