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
marriage wedding thinking
if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete.
women ready one-woman
there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy
law vote advantage
More often than not Democratic Law works to the advantage of the few even though the many have voted; this, of course, is because the few have told them how to vote.
dangerous
Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
love-is garbage-cans rivers
Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
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.
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.