If I were allowed one single thing, I would only want a bit of happiness, because if I were very happy, I would miss my sadness too much.
Oh god, I had a terrible sadness, that woman sat there and said are you really Charles Bukowski? and I said, let's skip that, I don't feel good, I have a terrible sadness and all I want to do is lay you.
Marlene Dietrich (Wenn ich mir was wünschen dürfte, 1930)
Charles Bukowski (Notes of a Dirty Old Man, 1969)