Tim

“you know, I’ve either had a family, a job,
something has always been in the
way
but now
I’ve sold my house, I’ve found this
place, a large studio, you should see the space and
the light.
for the first time in my life I’m going to have
a place and the time to
create.”

no baby, if you’re going to create
you’re going to create whether you work
16 hours a day in a coal mine
or
you’re going to create in a small room with 3 children
while you’re on
welfare,
you’re going to create with part of your mind and your body blown
away,
you’re going to create blind
crippled
demented,
you’re going to create with a cat crawling up your
back while
the whole city trembles in earthquake, bombardment,
flood and fire.

baby, air and light and time and space
have nothing to do with it
and don’t create anything
except maybe a longer life to find
new excuses
for.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems

“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

“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

“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