Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski
Henry Charles Bukowskiwas an American poet, novelist, and short story writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth16 August 1920
CityAndernach, Germany
CountryUnited States of America
Charles Bukowski quotes about
morning bed remember
I don't remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
baby genius said
Baby," I said, "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.
real two people
Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away and real people began to appear: cranks, imbeciles, the demented, the vengeful, sadists, killers. Modern society had created its own kind and they feasted on each other. It was a duel to the death--in a cesspool.
trouble mask never-change
The trouble with a mask is it never changes
children taken laughing
Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow did to you; I am old when it is fashionable to be young; I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.
hurt kids night
your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench and it was by a bridge and the bridge was over the river and you sat on the crying bench every night and wept for the lovers who had hurt and forgotten you.
men littles matter
No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less.
destroying destroying-yourself
Why do you insist upon destroying yourself?
women waiting good-woman
Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist.
taken anarchy ruins
There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.
world wanted whole-world
I wanted the whole world or nothing.
men drunk shooting-up
We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
loneliness pride men
I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.
hot hermits
When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.