what matters most is how well you walk through the fire - Charles Bukowski

"and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical senseand are not easy to fool with laughter"

"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."

"Find what you love and let it kill you."

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

"take a writer away from his typewriterand all you have leftisthe sicknesswhich started himtypingin thebeginning"