Son of Bukowski

“I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.”

“Pretty words, like pretty ladies, wrinkle up and die.”

“I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.”

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“There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.”

“Let it die. Let there be a new beginning. It's awful. Goodnight.”

“I only like time alone to lay around and stare at the ceiling for a while without voices around or bodies with voices. Like that”

“It's good to have things done with when they don't work. It's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with.”

“As the spirit wanes the form appears.”

You know what I mean? An optimistic pessimism.”

“It began as a mistake.”

Artwork by Nuno Ribeiro

“As I drink alone again tonight, my soul despite all the past agony thanks all the gods who were not there for me then.”

“Life is as kind as you let it be.”

“If I had a book or a drink, then I didn’t think too much of other things. Fools create their own paradise.”

“but we joke and laugh, otherwise we would start screaming.”

Artwork by Mark Joseph Hix