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
sex mean men
Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.
hurt want
I pretend to understand because I don't want anybody to be hurt
easy ifs
It’s so easy to be easy—if you let it.
evening natural given
Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.
morning
It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning.
bursting bursting-out spite
If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it.
school play benches
I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.
marriage single wedding
I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
ordinary-world soul understand-me
I have no time for things that have no soul.
dirty men world
I am not a man who looks for solutions in God or politics. If somebody else wants to do the dirty work and create a better world for us and he can do it, I will accept it.
taught dies
It’s never quite right, all the things we are taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we die, all the lives we live.
brother hard
Death is nothing, brother, it's life that's hard
friendship jail interesting
If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
suicide drinking drunk
I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.