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

"my mother, poor fish,wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!why don't you ever smile?"and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was thesaddest smile I ever saw"

"Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone."

"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead."

"Poetry is what happens when nothing else can."

"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."