“To me, there's nothing on earth other than women. It's why I get out of bed every morning.”
James Ellroy (1948) Novelist, short story writer, essayist, memoirist
Source: Reflected in You
“To me, there's nothing on earth other than women. It's why I get out of bed every morning.”
James Ellroy (1948) Novelist, short story writer, essayist, memoirist
“I go to bed angry and I get up angrier every morning.”
Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) American writer
1990 interview, as quoted in The New York Times (28 June 2018) https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/06/28/us/ap-us-obit-harlan-ellison.html
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Variant: the courage it took to get out of bed each
morning
to face the same things
over and over
was
enormous.
Source: You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense
Abraham Pais (1918–2000) American Physicist
Source: To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue (2000), p. 50
“All I see in the mirror every morning is a face that needs washing.”
Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011) British-American actress
“I don't remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Alexander Rosenberg (1946) American philosopher
The Atheist's Guide to Reality (2011)
Bruce Sterling (1954) American writer, speaker, futurist, and design instructor
in the Long Now talk "The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole" (2004).