Lafou

“Ya got cigarettes?” she asks. “Yes,” I say,
“I got cigarettes.” “Matches?” she asks.
“Enough to burn Rome.” “Whiskey?”
“Enough whiskey for a Mississippi River
of pain.” “You drunk?” “Not yet.”
― Charles Bukowski

“They ordered the extermination
of all minds they couldn't control”
― Tupac Shakur, The Rose That Grew From Concrete

“It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.”
― Tupac Shakur

“she's half-insane, looking for an out; she's hard, she's scared, she's been fooled, taken, abused, used, over-used . . .
but, under all that, to me she's the flower, I see her as she was before she was ruined by the lies: theirs and hers.”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense