sophie

“Those who had accepted me and my work wouldn't accept him and his work and I wondered if maybe my writing was made for fools?”
― Charles Bukowski, Hollywood

“I liked to watch the fights. Somehow it reminded me of my writing. You need the same thing, talent, guts, and condition. Only the condition was mental, spiritual. You were never a writer. You had to become a writer each time you sat down in front of the machine. What was hard sometimes was finding that chair and sitting in it. Sometimes you couldn't sit in it. Like everybody else in the world, for you, things got in the way: small troubles, big troubles, continuous slammings and bangings. You had to be in condition to endure what was trying to kill you.”
― Charles Bukowski, Hollywood

“Sad? Nonesense! Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place. And Arrakis is just another place.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“We awaken in the morning, kick our feet from under the sheets, place them on the floor and think, ah, shit, what now?”
― Charles Bukowski, Hollywood