Quote by Charles Bukowski

“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. 
This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. 
It could mean not eating for three or four days. 
It could mean freezing on a park bench. 
It could mean jail. 
It could mean derision. 
It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. 
All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. 
And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. 
And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. 
If you're going to try, go all the way. 
There is no other feeling like that. 
You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. 
You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. 
It's the only good fight there is.”

The Doorway

“What are the events in life? 

It’s like you see a door. 

The first time you come to it you say ‘Oh, what’s on the other side of the door?’ 

Then you open a few doors, then you say ‘I think I want to go over that bridge this time, I’m tired of doors.’ 

Finally, you go through one of these things and you come out the other side and you realize that’s all there are. 

Doors and windows and bridges and gates and they all open the same way and they all close behind you. 

Look, life is supposed to be a path and you go along and these things happen to you and they’re supposed to change you, change your direction. 

But it turns out that’s not true. It turns out the experiences are nothing. They’re just some cents that you pick up off the floor, stick in your pocket. 

You’re just going in a straight line to you know where.”

[ LIFE ]

"Everything is more complicated than you think.

You only see a tenth of what is true.

There are a million little strings attached to every choice you make.

You can destroy your life every time you choose.

But maybe you won't know for twenty years.

And you may never ever trace it to its source.

And you only get one chance to play it out.

And they say there is no fate, but there is.

It's what you create.

And even though the world goes on for eons and eons, you are only here for a fraction of a fraction of a second.

Most of your time is spent being dead or not yet born.

But while alive, you wait in vain, wasting years, for a phone call or a letter or a look from someone or something to make it all right.

And it never comes or it seems to, but it doesn't really.And so you spend your time in vague regret or vaguer hope that something good will come along.

Something to make you feel connected, something to make you feel whole, something to make you feel loved."