"Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom-love-happiness."
— Charles Bukowski (via thefantasticmrsfox)
"Then, one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life… you give them a piece of you. They don’t ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It’s a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love."
— Neil Gaiman
(Source: likesirensinthenight, via thefantasticmrsfox)
"Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life."
— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (via adarkershadeofred)
(Source: aestivial, via adarkershadeofred)
"She’s a beautiful, stacked lady. So, you know, it’s easy to stomach the age difference if your wife is insanely gorgeous."
— Nick Offerman, when asked by Playboy about the 12 year age difference between Megan Mullally and himself.
"I returned to college in the Fall, but my mind wasn’t at rest… I left and went down to the South to think things over. Since then, on my own, I have been learning fast, writing a lot, reading good men, and have been slowly making up my mind, seriously & quietly. Either I am loathsome to others, I have decided, or else I shall be a beacon of rich warm light, spreading good and plenty, making things prosper, being a cosmic architect, conquering the world and being respected, myself grinning surreptitiously. Either that, Sirs, or I shall be the most loathsome, useless, and parasitical (on myself) creature in the world. I shall be a denizen of the Underground, or a successful man of the world. There shall be no compromise!!! I mean it."
— 19-year-old Jack Kerouac in New York Diaries, a fantastic collection of famous and infamous journal entries about New York City from the past 400 years, featuring Andy Warhol, Mark Twain, J.F.K., and other icons. (via curiositycounts)
(via noratherese)
"I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed from a time in utter laziness. I’ve lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment."
— John Steinbeck
(Source: thechocolatebrigade, via adarkershadeofred)
