Jon Ronson Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than other people. My kind of irrationality happens to be fear or anxiety.”

“Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book.”

“At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.”

“Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that.”

“I wasn't in any way a kind of soothsayer or not surprised when Sept. 11 happened. I was absolutely shocked.”

“I'm not what you'd call a fearless type of person.”

“Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible.”

“Success is always less funny than failure.”

“Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing.”

“I did feel like they were telling me that something like that was going to happen. Not specifically - not that planes were going to be flown into the World Trade Center or anything like that - but in the general sense.”