Go All The Way by Charles Bukowski.

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.

This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe even 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 derision, mockery, isolation.

Isolation is the gift.

All others are tests 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's no other feeling like that.

You'll be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire.

You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.