What's Not to Love? Quotes

“Insightful and heartbreaking, but also wonderfully comedic in its gutsy honesty. A beautiful and powerful memoir.”
― Jonathan Ames, What's Not to Love?: The Adventures of a Mildly Perverted Young Writer

“I felt myself falling asleep; my eyes were closing, and then I thought, Maybe I should just kill myself. Suicidal thoughts always sneak up on me like that. But I don’t mind them. They’re like aspirin. They calm me down.”
― Jonathan Ames, What's Not to Love?: The Adventures of a Mildly Perverted Young Writer

“I was deeply depressed. I felt my brain slipping out of its casing and down my neck, like an egg sliding on a frying pan. So”
― Jonathan Ames, What's Not to Love?: The Adventures of a Mildly Perverted Young Writer

“Then between Sixth Street and Seventh Street, my mood was vastly improved when I passed a good-looking dog, a dark brown Lab. We locked eyes for a moment—two lovers from a former life reunited—and I felt quite happy.”
― Jonathan Ames, What's Not to Love?: The Adventures of a Mildly Perverted Young Writer

“It’s kind of like wearing a baseball cup. I want to call it the Mangina.” “That’s a good name for it. . . . Where are the other vaginas you made?” Chandler brought over to me a plastic bag and dumped out all the failed vaginas on to his drafting table.”
― Jonathan Ames, What's Not to Love?: The Adventures of a Mildly Perverted Young Writer