Van

“Everyone in the audience is an idiot, but taken together, they're a genius.”
― Billy Wilder

“I’m kind of an upbeat Hamlet.”
― Jonathan Ames, Bored to Death: A Noir-otic Story

“We went down the stairs to the café on the ground floor. I had discovered that was the best way to get rid of friends. Once you had a drink all you had to say was: “Well, I’ve got to get back and get off some cables,” and it was done. It is very important to discover graceful exits like that in the newspaper business, where it is such an important part of the ethics that you should never seem to be working.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“As I followed Mr. Harrison, I picked up his salty, sweet odor—it pervaded the whole apartment actually—and I liked it. It smelled alive.”
― Jonathan Ames, The Extra Man