cash

"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. If you analyze it as you're moving forward, you'll never fall in the same trap twice, which I can't say that I haven't been guilty of doing. But my advice is, if they're going to break your legs once when you go in that place, stay out of there." - Johnny Cash

bluebird

there's a bluebird in my heart that

wants to get out

but I'm too tough for him,

I say, stay in there, I'm not going

to let anybody see

you.

there's a bluebird in my heart that

wants to get out

but I pur whiskey on him and inhale

cigarette smoke

and the whores and the bartenders

and the grocery clerks

never know that

he's

in there.

there's a bluebird in my heart that

wants to get out

but I'm too tough for him,

I say,

stay down, do you want to mess

me up?

you want to screw up the

works?

you want to blow my book sales in

Europe?

there's a bluebird in my heart that

wants to get out

but I'm too clever, I only let him out

at night sometimes

when everybody's asleep.

I say, I know that you're there,

so don't be

sad.

then I put him back,

but he's singing a little

in there, I haven't quite let him

die

and we sleep together like

that

with our

secret pact

and it's nice enough to

make a man

weep, but I don't

weep, do

you?

- Charles Bukowski

hope

“Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will.” - Josh Hartnett

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” - Oscar Wilde

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” - Robert Brault

beautiful

"Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish." - John Jakes

the way it is now

I'll tell you

I've lived with some gorgeous women

and I was so bewitched by those

beautiful creatures that

my eyebrows twitched.

but I'd rather drive to New York

backwards

than to live with any of them

again.

the next classic stupidity

will be the history

of those fellows

who inherit my female

legacies.

in their case

as in mine

they will find

that madness

is caused by not

being often enough

alone.

-Charles Bukowski