“May We All Get Better Together”

That was Charles Bukowski's message to the Nijmegen library in 1985, after they removed one of his books for being "sadistic and discriminatory":

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth. … In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see. If I write of "sadism" it is because it exists, I didn't invent it, and if some terrible act occurs in my work it is because such things happen in our lives. I am not on the side of evil, if such a thing as evil abounds.