“She had wild eyes, slightly insane. She also carried an overload of compassion that was real enough and which obviously cost her… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“They took all the joy out of fucking by talking about it all the time. I liked to fuck too, but it… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I always enjoyed being at women’s places more than when they were at mine. When I was at their places I could… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I'm not a guru. I wish you wouldn't pose these things at me, man. Ask me about women or something.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I don't know. It's been terribly hard for me. How do I know you won't do it again?' 'Nobody is ever quite… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I call 'em complaining machines. Things are never right with a guy to them. And man, when you throw that hysteria in… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find; that is why the human race stands where it does… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I guess lesbianism wasn't so rampant in those days, they would've gotten a bunk with each other and just left me alone,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“girls please give your bodies and your lives to the young men who deserve them besides there is no way I would… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Generally, I decided, it was better to wait, if you had any feeling for the individual. If you hated her right off,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“That way I wouldn't have to see the guys in their walking shorts. They looked as if nothing had ever touched them-… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“There were no judgments to be made, yet out of necessity one had to select. Beyond good and evil was all right… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Women: i liked the color of their clothing; the ay they alked; the cruelty in some faces; now and then the almost… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Nothing like beautiful legs. 'Cause with beautiful legs, even if you've been there only once or twice, there might be something up… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Women: I liked the colors of their clothing; the way they walked; the cruelty in some faces; now and then the almost… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Yes Yes when God created love he didn't help most when God created dogs He didn't help dogs when God created plants… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“The time came to put Iris Duarte back on the plane. It was a morning flight which made it difficult. I was… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I got to my place late one night. I was really beat. Getting that key out and into the door was about… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and the hours, days, weeks years seem wasted – stretched there upon… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share
well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share
“There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. A writer who has to go into the streets is… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share
Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share
“nerves twitching in the sheets -- to face the sunlight again, that's clearly trouble. I like the city better when the neon lights are… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share
“Their Love Is Average, Seeks Average But There Is Genius In Their Hatred” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share
“I climbed the stairway (there was no elevator) and put the key in. The door swung open. Somebody had changed all the furniture around,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share
“Strangers when you meet, strangers when you part -a gymnasium of bodies namelessly masturbating each other. People with no morals often considered themselves more… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share
I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share
“I was like a turd that drew flies instead of like a flower that butterflies and bees desired. I wanted to live alone,I felt… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share
I went home each night dizzy and sick. He was murdering me with the sound of his voice. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share
“the nights you fight best are when all the weapons are pointed at you, when all the voices hurl their insults while the dream… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share
