"Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends."
— Tom Waits

"The big print giveth and the small print taketh away. "
— Tom Waits

"There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you."
— Charles Bukowski

"What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse."
— Henry Miller