“the nights you fight best are when all the weapons are pointed at you, when all the voices hurl their insults while… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
when I was a boy I used to dream of becoming the village idiot. I used to lie in bed and imagine… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“He’s sick on the dream. We’re all sick on the dream, that’s why we’re out here.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“She was beginning to understand. Winners didn’t shoot off their mouths. They were afraid of getting murdered in the parking lot. After… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“our progenitors, our educational systems, the land, the media, the way have deluded and misled the masses: they have been defeated by… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“on the continent I'm soft. I dream too. I let myself dream. I dream of being famous. I dream of walking the… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
With me, my main vision for life was to avoid as many people as possible. The less people I saw the better… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
2 p.m. beer nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“Their Love Is Average, Seeks Average But There Is Genius In Their Hatred” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
