This quote has always given me calm in the storm. The reasons for that were not clear when I read it for the first time in my early twenties. I only knew that once I read it, I felt more at ease, more comfortable in my own skin. I had a sense that this writer understood aspects of my personhood...
I'm here because reading Bukowski somehow leaves me knowing that I am a part of something bigger than myself. I am left connected.
I identify with his cynicism. Human beings can be pieces of shit far more often than my younger self could have imagined. We have the capacity to consciously bring...
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