"Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores."

“To write about a place, you have to live there.”

Source : "Jonathan Ames Talks HBO’s “Bored To Death,” Life In Brooklyn, And Wanting To Be Like Matt Damon". Interview with David Weiner, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2011.

“Johnny, can't you come out to play in your empty garden?”

“The black crow thinketh her own birds white.”

“Greatness is not this, wonderful, esoteric, elusive, god-like feature that only the special among us will ever taste. You know? It's something that truly exists, in, all of us. It's very simple, this is what I believe, and, I'm willing to die for it. Period. It's that simple.”

“It's nice to be wanted. That's a really good feeling. I'm not immune to it.”

“If we release our fixed ideas about how the world should appear, desires can simply fall away. Our attention is paid to releasing, not wanting to release.”

“Our faith becomes stronger as we express it; a growing faith is a sharing faith”

“[Speaking of Chinese president Sun Yat-sen] ...combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China.”