Four days alone with nothing. Emerge empowered. The first human face you see will knock you back 50%.
Charles BukowskiBanion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives.
Charles BukowskiThanksgiving. It proved you had survived another year with its wars, inflation, unemployment, smog, presidents. It was a grand neurotic gathering of clans: loud drunks, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, screaming children, would-be suicides. And don't forget indigestion. I wasn't different from anyone else: There sat the 18-pound bird on my sink, dead, plucked, totally disemboweled. Iris would roast it for me.
Charles Bukowski