Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.

I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.

‎"she’ mad but she’ magic. there’ no lie in her fire.

I'm too careless. I don't put out enough effort. I'm tired.

Everything is beautiful. We have all this beauty in the world and all we have to do is reach out and touch it, it is all there and all ours for the taking." -- Cecilia to Henry Chinaski, liberty taken changing past tense to present tense (173)

You have to lay down in the center of the action lay down and wait until it charges then you must get up face it get it before it gets you the whole process is more shy than vulnerable so lay down and wait sometimes it's ten minutes sometimes it's years sometimes it never arrives but you can't rush it push it there's no way to cheat or get a jump on it you have to lay down lay down and wait like an animal .

nobody ever finds the one