Tim

“All we do is sleep, and eat and lay around and make love. We're like slugs. Slug-love, I call it.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“Are there good governments and bad governments? No, there are only bad governments and worse governments.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories

“Love is not a candle burning down. Life is. And love and life are not the same or else Love, having choice, nobody would ever die.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966

“Concentrate every minute like a Roman— like a man— on doing what’s in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness, tenderly, willingly, with justice. And on freeing yourself from all other distractions. Yes, you can— if you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered , irritable. You see how few things you have to do to live a satisfying and reverent life? If you can manage this, that’s all even the gods can ask of you.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations