"I used to have a theory that if I could just make one person’s life happy or real that would..."

“I used to have a theory that if I could just make one person’s life happy or real that would have been otherwise then my own life would not have failed. It was a good theory but a few whores ran me through the wringer for it, but I do think that for a while a few of them enjoyed not being spit on for a while, and so this made it o.k. for me.” - Charles Bukowski, Selected Letters 1965-1970