We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain. - Charles Bukowski

"Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it."

"I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready."

"Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink."

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

"Poetry is what happens when nothing else can."