Quotes About Fulfillment

Now, I thought, pushing my cart along, I have this job. Is this to be it? No wonder men robbed banks. There were too many demeaning jobs. Why the hell wasn't I a superior court judge or a concert pianist? Because it took training and training cost money. But I didn't want to be anything anyhow. And I was certainly succeeding

Maybe I'll write a novel, I thought. And then I did.

I thought of all my rotten jobs and how glad I was to have them. for a while. then it was a matter of quitting or getting fired. both felt good.

People need me. I fill them. If they can't see me for a while they get desperate, they get sick. But if I see them too often I get sick. It's hard to feed without getting fed.

I began to feel like a kept man and it felt great.

I drive toward it not wanting it getting it getting it as the cat stretches yawns and rolls over into another dream.

Potential," I said, "doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.

I think I need a drink." "Almost everybody does only they don't know it." "I know it.

If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is." –Paraphrased from Charles Bukowski's poem "Roll the Dice

Money is like sex," I said. "It seems much more important when you don't have any…

if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete.

I found Pete and Selma. Selma looked great. How did one get a Selma? The dogs of this world never ended up with a Selma.

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives, they piss on their lives. They shit them away. (...) Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.

The less i needed the better i felt.

play the piano she says it's not good for you not to write.

some men never die and some men never live but

Don't let anybody tell you different. Life begins at 65.

The big moment came. I sat the typewriter down on the desk and I put a piece of paper in there and I hit the keys. The typewriter still worked. And there was plenty of room for an ashtray, the radio and the bottle. Don't let anybody tell you different. Life begins at 65.

writing. It is my drug. It is my woman, my wine, my god. My luck.

the best poems it seems to me are written out of an ultimate need. and once the poem is written, the only need after that is to write another.

From the cubicle of the job to the cubicle of resting and waiting to return to the job. The job is the center. The job is the sun. The job is the mother's breast. To be jobless is the sin; to be lifeless doesn't matter.

Avrei potuto anche accontentarmi, ma è così che si diventa infelici.

Lo terrible no es la muerte, sino las vidas que la gente vive o no vive hasta su muerte.

The whole earth was nothing but mouths and assholes swallowing and shitting, and fucking.