Go All The Way

"If you are going to try, go all the way.
Otherwise don't even start.
This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs.
And maybe your mind.

It could mean not eating for three or four days.
It could mean freezing on a park bench.
It could mean jail.
It could mean mockery, isolation.


Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance.
Of how much you really want to do it.



And you'll do it, despite rejection.
And it will be better than anything else you can imagine.
If you're going to try, go all the way."


(Factotum - Director: Bent Hammer / Writer: (Novel) Charles Bukowski - 2005)