Jonathan Heatt > Jonathan's Quotes

“Racial superiority isn't real. It is delusional fiction created by ignorant people.”
― Jonathan Heatt

“Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself.”
― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.”
― Livy

“Grammar perfect books are for Ivy Leaguers in Ivory Towers. My book is a sandcastle built on the beach of usefullness.”
― Jonathan Heatt, Teaching Snapping Turtles How To Chew Bubblegum

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
― Edmund Burke

“Las Vegas and the American Dream: two ideas intertwined like crossed fingers on a bloated corpse.”
― Jonathan Heatt, Teaching Snapping Turtles How To Chew Bubblegum

“Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich.”
― William Faulkner

“Listening to Led Zeppelin's Heartbreaker while reading your own book, sipping a beer after midnight, is a satisfying feeling...however fleeting.”
― Jonathan Heatt

“If it be a point of humanity for man to bring health and comfort to man, and especially to mitigate and assuage the grief of others, and by taking from them the sorrow and heaviness of life to restore them to joy, that is to say, to pleasure, why may it not then be said that nature does provoke every man to do the same to himself?”
― Thomas More

“The proper bookmark for a Hunter Thompson book is a pair of brass knuckles.”
― Jonathan Heatt

“When you write a book there are no more pretenses or facades to hide behind. It is very liberating to proclaim "this is who I am.”
― Jonathan Heatt

“The worse life treats you, the more noble a cause it is to remain a kind person.”
― Jonathan Heatt

“I'll never suppress my identity -- that's like filing away your fingerprints so the money can slide into your pockets easier.”
― Jonathan Heatt

“The mainstream media in America has become an insidious device of ignorance.
They not only shape the story, but now participate. For what?”
― Jonathan Heatt

“Regardless if a person likes my book I've earned the title: An American Writer.”
― Jonathan Heatt

“There is no more contemptible sound than a gunshot.”
― Jonathan Heatt

“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Guns give Evil a means to expression.”
― Jonathan Heatt, Teaching Snapping Turtles How To Chew Bubblegum

“To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“The thing I've learned writing my book is that everyone has the potential to be a poet, and all of our lives are epic.”
― Jonathan Heatt

“Living life without humor is like eating food without taste buds.”
― Jonathan Heatt, Teaching Snapping Turtles How To Chew Bubblegum

“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“I had too much fun was no one's last regret ever.”
― Jonathan Heatt, Teaching Snapping Turtles How To Chew Bubblegum

“Getting wasted is never a waste of time.”
― Jonathan Heatt

“Each thing I do, I rush through so I can do something else. In such a way do the days pass---a blend of stock car racing and the never ending building of a gothic cathedral. Through the windows of my speeding car I see all that I love falling away: books unread, jokes untold, landscapes unvisited...”
― Stephen Dobyns

“Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.”
― Paul Wellstone

“I created a new marketing slogan for Teaching Snapping Turtles:

"Read this. You're not gonna like it.”
― Jonathan Heatt, Teaching Snapping Turtles How To Chew Bubblegum

“The only time I'll quit is when my pulse does.”
― Jonathan Heatt

“America: Land of the free and home of the gun.
We are not brave, we are cowards, or we would have done something, anything after Newtown. Instead we did Nothing.”
― Jonathan Heatt, Teaching Snapping Turtles How To Chew Bubblegum