Misty Rugg

“But you must have imperfect hours to get perfect hours. You must kill ten hours to make two hours live. What you must be careful of is not to kill ALL the hours, ALL the years.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

“Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the universe loves nothing so much as to change things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“art as the spirit wanes the form appears.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Pleasures of the Damned

“There’s more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this only strengthens their infirmities and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar,”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden