Ahhh I see that there are some wise guys here!! LOL. The quote that caught my eye from my friend was,
"We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that death will tremble to take us."
I also came across a couple of more that I liked,
"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts and the stupid ones are full of confidence.
and
"We are all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten by nothing."
I also just purchased my first Bukowski book, "Ham on Rye."