"I know a womanwho keeps buying puzzleschinesepuzzlesblockswirespieces that finally fitinto some order.she works it outmathmaticallyshe solves all herp...











More Charles Bukowski quotes
"people need me. I fillthem. if they can't see mefor awhile the get desperate, they getsick.but if I see them too oftenI get sick. it's hard to feedwit...
"you shoulda known the entirety of the trap, a**hole,love means eventual painvictory means eventual defeatgrace means eventual slovenliness,there's no ...
"Once in a rare lifetime have you ever been in a roomful of people who only helped you when you looked at them, listened to them. this was one of those...
"aboutour argument tonightwhatever it wasaboutand no matterhow unhappyit made usfeelremember thatthere is acatsomewhereadjusting to thespace of itselfw...
"I have, he went on, betrayed myself withbelief, deluded myself with lovetricked myself with sex.the bottle is damned faithful, he said,the bottle will...
"the lies of centuries, the lies of love,the lies of Socrates and Blake and Christwill be your bedmates and tombstonesin a death that will never end.
"I like to prowl ordinary places.I feel sorry for us all or glad for us allcaught alive togetherand awkward in that way.there's nothing better than the...
"waitingin a life full of little storiesfor a death to come
"for meobedience to another is the decayof self
"I care for you, darling, I love you,the only reason I fucked L. is because you fuckedZ. and then I fucked R. and you fucked N.and because you fucked N...
"I wait on my fix:I am a poetry junkie.
"love needs too much help, he said.hate takes care of itself.
"I like to prowl ordinary placesand taste the people-from a distance.
"it's so easy to be a poetand so hard to be a man.