The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space. ~Italo Calvino
Commonplace book of a teacher, poet, and counselor.
never go out on the street after you’ve been drinking 5 or 6 or 8 or ten hours. they have cages ready for the likes of us. I don’t think I could take another cage, not one more god damned cage of theirs. I build enough of my own.
(Source: thebatsofgallifrey, via henrycharlesbukowski)
Never go out on the street after you’ve been drinking 5 or 6 or 8 or ten hours. they have cages ready for the likes of...