You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
- Charles Bukowski
More like this
I have to admit, opening a used bookstore has always been one of my romantic, "what if I won the lottery" idle musings. Communing with books and book people has always been one of my favourite pastimes.
“the way to create art is to burn and destroy
ordinary concepts and to substitute them
with new truths that run down from the top of the head
"[F]or those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god.