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“The mind creates with thoughts and logic, but it sees with light. The heart creates with the emotions and feelings and dreaming, but it sees with darkness.”
Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
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“There's only one thing we never wrote down. You know what it was.”
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“You can’t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca, the Cathedral, the bordello. The shopping mall, the urinal, the discotheque. I’m hardly speaking in metaphor. It’s the most impermeable of cities. How does one convey all that?”
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“The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.”
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“The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested”
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“nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.”
Source : Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”
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“I never notice what is said about me. I am credited with things I have never done, and abused for them. It would be idle to attempt to contradict newspaper talk and street rumors.”
Source : "Jay Gould : A Character Sketch" by William T. Stead, February 1893.
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“Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?”
Source : "Absurdities, Scandals & Stupidities in Politics". Book by Hakeem Shittu and Callie Query, p. 106, 2006.