William Hearst

“I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony.”
― Jim Harrison

“I’m going to propose that I tell you a joke, Boo, on the condition that afterward you shush and let me sleep.’ ‘Is it a good one?’ ‘Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic, and a dyslexic.’ ‘I give.’ ‘You get somebody who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there’s a dog.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow
by I don't know what.”
― Jim Harrison, In Search of Small Gods

“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses