be it peace or happinesslet it enfold you - Charles Bukowski

"Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way."

"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."

"Poetry is what happens when nothing else can."

"People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice."

"unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it"