“Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work”— Charles Bukowski Related Quotes “Barking hard work, being a boy.”— Scott Westerfeld “It is really irritating to work with irritating people”— Joshua Ferris “Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.”– Michel Foucault