“Let’s just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
my 6 foot goddess makes me laugh the laughter of the mutilated who still need love... she has saved me from everything… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“not being able to love fully they will believe your love incomplete and then they will hate you and their hatred will… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“There is a quality about women who choose men sparingly; it appears in their walk in their eyes in their laughter and… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
It’s never quite right, all the things we are taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we die, all the… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Love dries up, I thought as I walked back to the bathroom, even faster than sperm. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“it's colder than hell (yes) but the blankets are thin, and the pulled-down shades are as full of holes as love is.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and… — 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
I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“god, love is more strange than numerals more strange than grass on fire more strange than the dead body of a child… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“you shoulda known the entirety of the trap, a**hole, love means eventual pain victory means eventual defeat grace means eventual slovenliness, there's… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“If I could only make her fall in love with me. Pretend to be a writer and just fuck her and have… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I will remember your small room, the feel of you, the light in the window, your records, your books, our morning coffee,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“There was no sense to life, to the structure of things. D.H. Lawrence had known that. You needed love, but not the… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I was sentimental about many things: a woman’s shoes under the bed; one hairpin left behind on the dresser; the way they… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Trapped don't undress my love you might find a mannequin: don't undress the mannequin you might find my love. she's long ago… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire, the bed,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“out of the arms... out of the arms of one love and into the arms of another I have been saved from… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
in the cupboard sits my bottle like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers. I drink and cough like some idiot… — 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
