Delicate Menace

“I have a special ring-system that must work before I will pick up my phone. I am not a snob: it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do-mostly with my time.”
― Charles Bukowski, Notes of a Dirty Old Man

“Neal would just go on driving, neither grim or happy or sardonic, just there - doing the movements. I understood. it was necessary. it was his bull ring, his racetrack. it was holy and necessary”
― Charles Bukowski, Notes of a Dirty Old Man

“To be clear, there are things I regret. It’s just… it’s not really the sordid things. I don’t regret many of the lies I told or the people I hurt. I’m OK with the fact that sometimes doing the right thing gets ugly. And also, I have compassion for myself. I trust myself.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them. All right, so we do the best we can. Granted. But we must still realize that love is just the result of a chance encounter. Most people make too much of it. On these grounds a good fuck is not to be entirely scorned. But that's the result of a chance meeting too. You're damned right. Drink up. We'll have another.”
― Charles Bukowski