Tim

“that's ONE thing that's wrong with intellectuals and writers - they don't feel a hell of a lot except their own comfort or their own pain. which is normal but shitty.”
― Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness

“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

“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