Alexandru B.

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

“once again
I hear of somebody who is going to
settle down and
do their work,
painting or writing or whatever,
as soon as they get a better light
installed,
orassoonastheymovetoanew
city,
or as soon as they come back from the trip they have been planning,
or as soon as . . .
it’s simple: they just don’t want to do it,
or they can’t do it,
otherwise they’d feel a burning itch from hell
they could not ignore and “soon”
would turn quickly into “now.”
― Charles Bukowski, Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems

“I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations—one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it—you will regret both.”
― Sören Kierkegaard, Either/Or, vol II

“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
― Hemingway, Ernest