It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them t... - Charles Bukowski

"those who escape hellhowevernever talk aboutitand nothing muchbothers themafterthat."

"When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble."

"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."

"There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get outbut I'm too tough for him,I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you."

"Poetry is what happens when nothing else can."