Bert quotes from Mad Men

( on Ida's death ): She was born in 1898 in a barn. She died on the 37th floor of a skyscraper. She was an astronaut.

[to Roger] Lee Garner Jr. never took you seriously because you never took yourself seriously.

[to Don] You've been on love leave. It's amazing things are going as well as they are with as little as you are doing.

No man has ever come back from leave, not even Napoleon.

Young men love risk because they can't imagine the consequences.

Don

You old men love building golden tombs and sealing the rest of us in with you.

Don

It's none of your business.

This is my business.

Don

LeaseTech, the company we're leasing the computer from, is a virgin. I think we should prepare a presentation while their guy is here and push 'em over the edge.

New business.

Don

That whole industry is exploding. The sky has exponential growth.

Have you forgotten the stipulations?

Don

Fine, tell somebody else. I mean, the apple is right there.

You have a fundamental misunderstanding of what went wrong here.

Don

So, that's it? You want me to be a janitor? Whistle while I work?

You thought there was going to be a big creative crisis and we would pull you off the bench, but in fact we've been doing just fine.

Don

So why am I even here? I could have gone anywhere.

Why are you here?

Don

Because I started this agency!

Along with a dead man whose office you now inhabit.

Don

I must be tired.

You've been driving for 7 hours... in the wrong direction. Where are you going?

Don

Racine, Wisconsin.

What's in Wisconsin? Some waitress who doesn't care about you? Don't do that.

Don

That's not going to stop me.

You like to play the stranger.

Don

Remember On the Road?

I've never read that book. You know that.

Don

I'm riding the rails.