Factotum

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wifes, 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 derission, 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 the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that, you'll be alone with the gods and the nights will flame with fire. You'll ride life's straight perfect laugh. It's the only good fight there is.

Charles Bukowski