Charles Bukowski Quotes
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a woman candropout of yourlife andforget youreal fast.a womancan't go anywherebut UPafterleaving you,honey.
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I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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'Every man is a poet'
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I was still proud of that momentback thenwhen Jed handed methat pintandI draineda third of itwith all the discipleswatching.damn, there was no wayit seemedwe could everlosebut we did.and it took me3 or 4 decades tomove on just alittle.and Jed,if you are still heretonight,(I forgot to tell youthen)here's a thanksfor that drink.
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'Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love.'
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Man was born to die. What did it mean? Hanging around and waiting. Waiting for the ‘A train.’ Waiting for a pair of big breasts on some August night in a Vegas hotel room. Waiting for the mouse to sing. Waiting for the snake to grow wings. Hanging around.
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It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning.
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But I couldn't help thinking, god, all these mailmen do is drop in letters and get laid. This is the job for me, oh yes yes yes.
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Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.
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It was the poor part of town-small houses and courts with mailboxes full of spiders, mailboxes hanging by one nail, old women inside rolling cigarettes and chewing tobacco and humming to their canaries and watching you, an idiot lost in the rain.
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'Baby,' I said. 'I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.'