Alina Cîrstea

“Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way.”
― Charles Bukowski, Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990

“the price of creation
is never
too high.

the price of living
with other people
always
is.”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

“Like anybody can tell you, I am not a very nice man. I don't know the word. I have
always admired the villain, the outlaw, the son of a bitch. I don't like the clean-shaven
boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth
and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and
explosions. I also like vile women, drunk cursing bitches with loose stockings and
sloppy mascara faces. I'm more interested in perverts than saints. I can relax with
bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be
shaped by society.”
― Charles Bukowski, South of No North

“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
― Orhan Pamuk, Snow