“Jim, did your father really blow his brains out because of your mother?" "Yeah.He was on the telephone.He told her he had… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“i g l o o his name was Eddie and he had a big white dog with a curly tail a huskie… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“my father always said, “early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” it was lights out… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I think I’m going to die,” the old man said. “I don’t want to die. I’m afraid to die …” “You’ve lived… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“we had goldfish and they circled around and around in the bowl on the table near the heavy drapes covering the picture… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
my mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren’t we going to run out of gas?' No there’s plenty of god-damned gas.' Where are we going?'… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“one day the goldfish died, all five of them, they floated on the water, on their sides, their eyes still open, and… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Something had happened. The bath towels knew it, the bathtub and the toilet knew it. My father turned and walked out the… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn't particularly… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Two bulls fighting for the cow. And a bony one at that. But in America the loser oftentimes got the cow. Mother… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn't particularly… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I saw headline in paper: CONGRESS VOWS FIGHT ON CRIME. and I almost sat down and wrote a mother essay, 8 or… — charles bukowski Copy Share Image
Your parents don't give you much love, do they?' 'I don't need that stuff,' I told her. 'Henry, everybody needs love.' 'I… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I didn't like anybody in that school. I think they knew that. I think that's why they disliked me. I didn't like… — 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
