Monday-afternoon optimism

"What’s the point of being a writer or an artist anyway? Herman Melville wrote MOBY DICK, and he was so poor and forgotten by the time he died, that in his obituary they called him Henry Melville. You know, like why bother they’re gonna forget our names anyway."

--Joel (Martin Starr) in "Adventureland." Note: This fact is all over the Internet but I couldn't actually verify it, though I did discover Melville is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx along with Nellie Bly, Joseph Pulitzer and Damon Runyon.