The Wisdom of an Old Friend

My friend Chris Pilon, who lives in Houston with his lovely wife Vicki, is on a major Bukowski bender.

There are worse places to be.

He sends along the best of CB's quotes right here.

Thanks Chris. It is always a pleasure to hear from your Texass (spit!)ass!

"That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen."
— Charles Bukowski (Women)

"It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?"
— Charles Bukowski (Factotum)

Ah, Bukowski, America's greatest dead writer!


TS