To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, canโt sit still, move, or even go decently insane.
Charles BukowskiYou are thirty minutes late." "Yes." "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?" "No." "Why not, pray tell?" "Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.
Charles BukowskiFor each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter.
Charles Bukowski