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
wrinkles pretty-woman pretty-words
Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die.
giving advice painting
and if I have any advice to give to anybody it’s this: take up watercolor painting.
pet goldfish canaries
places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notice that?
stupid night two
why don't we go back out there and tell them what happened? because nothing happened except that everybody has been driven insane and stupid by life. in this society there are only two things that count: don't be caught without money and don't get caught high on any kind of high. (Night Streets of Madness)
kind wanted knows
she knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more women like that than any / other kind.
animal talking soul
Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any.
errors defense made
there's no defense except all the errors made
lying fire mad
"she’ mad but she’ magic. there’ no lie in her fire.
writing way ifs
If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead.
crazy thinking rooms
if you think they didn't go crazy in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready.
law vaudeville firsts
Courts are places where the ending is written first and all that precedes is simply vaudeville.
art boxing bullfighting
Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art
men thinking average
for a man of 55 who didn't get laid until he was 23 and not very often until he was 50 I think that I should stay listed via Pacific Telephone until I get as much as the average man has had
loneliness hands movement
there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock