Mike Sloan

“I have practiced death for so long and still I have not learned it,”
― Charles Bukowski, The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills

“she went on singing but I wanted to die I wanted yellow flowers like her golden hair I wanted yellow-singing and the sun.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills

“You had no way to cope with war and famine and overpopulation because you couldn’t bring yourselves to discuss them. So war happened to you; it was like a natural calamity, not man-made at all. It became a force. We control our society. We contemplate all aspects of our existence, not merely the good and pleasant.”
― Philip K. Dick, Dr. Futurity

“going to nationalize the doctors, lawyers, painters, musicians. During the last decades the technocratic and professional classes had gradually gained control of society.”
― Philip K. Dick, Dr. Futurity