“Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities ...” — Charles Bukowski Quote

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them. All right, so we do the best we can. Granted. But we must still realize that love is just the result of a chance encounter. Most people make too much of it. On these grounds a good fuck is not to be entirely scorned. But that's the result of a chance meeting too. You're damned right. Drink up. We'll have another.

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won't let go.

Never get out of bed before noon.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.

I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

I have seen (as far as it can be seen) many persons changed in a moment from the spirit of horror, fear, and despair to the spirit of hope, joy, peace; and from sinful desires, till then reigning over them, to a pure desire of doing the will of God.

Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.