Charles Bukowski Quotes
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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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People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel hate or love.
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Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.
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'Every man is a poet'
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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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'People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.'
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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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'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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It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning.
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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.'