Joe Rogan reads Bukowski's "Roll the Dice," a poem about committing fully to your work no matter the cost. It warns you'll lose relationships, comfort, and sanity, face derision and isolation. But the payoff is riding life straight to perfect laughter and being alone with the gods.
Roll the Dice or Go all the Way By Charles Bukowski if you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. If you're going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs, and maybe your mind. Go all the way. It can mean not eating for three or four days. It can mean freezing at a park bench. It can mean jail. It can mean derision, 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 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. Do it. Do it. All the way. All the way. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is. Sam.
