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
men winning hands
Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the other hand it is mathematically possible that he might win whatever you bring with you. What you must do, with money and the poor, is never let them get too close to one another.
sex tasks sometimes
Sex can sometimes become the most horrible of tasks.
betrayal damnation female
The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.
women
A woman has to have something on or there's nothing to take off.
hell things-to-do ifs
The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
lonely self pity
I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.
art discipline skirts
Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
victory defeat small-victories
I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.
running art way
the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart
sleep cat waiting
In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass.
men envy hell
Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.
humanity
Humanity, you never had it to begin with.
art simple intellectual
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
cat people forever
The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live ten times longer than if you have ten. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever.