“ As the shadows assumeshapesI fight the slowretreatnowmy once-promisedwindlingdwindlingnowlighting new cigarettespouring moredrinksit has been a beautifulfightstillis. Charles Bukowski
“ Darkness falls upon Humanityand faces become terriblethingsthat wanted more than therewas.all our days are marked withunexpectedaffronts - somedisastrous, othersless sobut the process iswearing andcon… Charles Bukowski
“ It is so dark now with the sadness ofpeoplethey were tricked, they were taught to expect theultimate when nothing ispromisednow young girls weep alone in small roomsold men angrily swing their canes a… Charles Bukowski
“ The best part waspulling down theshadesstuffing the doorbellwith ragsputting the phonein therefrigeratorand going to bedfor 3 or 4days. and the next bestpartwasnobody evermissedme. Charles Bukowski
“ I see a brightportionunder the overhead lightthat shades intodarknessand then into darkerdarknessand I can't see beyond that. Charles Bukowski
“ She slammed the door andwas gone.I looked at the closed doorand at the doorknoband strangelyI didn't feelalone. Charles Bukowski
“ Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way. Charles Bukowski
“ How are his poems?""He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way. Charles Bukowski
“ We’ve all heard that little woman who says, “Oh, it’s terrible what these young people do to themselves, in my lsi other drugs, is a terrible thing”.Then you look, the woman who speaks in this way: yo… Charles Bukowski
“ Are there good governments and bad governments? No, there are only bad governments and worse governments. Charles Bukowski
“ I didn't know who tobelievebutone thing I doknow: when a man islivingmany claim relationshipsthat are hardlysoand after he dies, well,then it's everybody'sparty. Charles Bukowski
“ When I drive the freeways I see the soul of humanity ofmy city and it's ugly, ugly, ugly: the living have choked theheartaway. Charles Bukowski
“ I found the best thingI could dowas just to type awayat my own workand let the dyingdieas they always have. Charles Bukowski
“ The dead do not needaspirin orsorrow,I suppose.but they might needrain.not shoesbut a place towalk.not cigarettes,they tell us,but a place to burn.or we're told:space and a place to flymight be thesam… Charles Bukowski
“ When Whitman wrote, “I sing the body electric”I know what hemeantI know what hewanted:to be completely alive every momentin spite of the inevitable.we can’t cheat death but we can make itwork so hardt… Charles Bukowski
“ Yawn...I believe that I love sleepmuch more than anybody I’ve evermet.I have the ability to sleep for2 or 3 days andnights.I will go to bed at any givenmoment.I often confused my girlfriendsthis way—s… Charles Bukowski
