“ The centuries are sprinkled with rare magicwith divine creatureswho help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us Charles Bukowski
“ Sometimes all we need to be able to continue aloneare the deadrattling the wallsthat close us in. Charles Bukowski
“ I know that some nightin some bedroomsoonmy fingers willriftthroughsoft cleanhairsongs such as no radioplaysall sadness, grinninginto flow. Charles Bukowski
“ Whether I was a genius or not did not so much concern me as the fact that I simply did not want a part of anything. The animal-drive and energy of my fellow man amazed me: that a man could change tire… Charles Bukowski
“ The world is better withoutthem.only the plants and the animals aretrue comrades.I drink to them and withthem. Charles Bukowski
“ The price of creationis nevertoo high.the price of livingwith other peoplealwaysis. Charles Bukowski
“ We are burning like a chicken wing left on the grill of an outdoor barbecuewe are unwanted and burning we are burning and unwanted we arean unwantedburningas we sizzle and fryto the bonethe coals of D… Charles Bukowski
“ I feel no grief for being called somethingwhichI am not;in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a goodback rub Charles Bukowski
“ Unaccountably we are aloneforever aloneand it was meant to bethat way,it was never meantto be any other way–and when the death strugglebeginsthe last thing I wish to seeisa ring of human faceshovering… Charles Bukowski
“ That's ONE thing that's wrong with intellectuals and writers - they don't feel a hell of a lot except their own comfort or their own pain. which is normal but shitty. Charles Bukowski
“ All we do is sleep, and eat and lay around and make love. We're like slugs. Slug-love, I call it. Charles Bukowski
“ 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 sure of what they will do. You aren't sure what you might do. Charles Bukowski
“ I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I have an escape mechanism. Charles Bukowski
“ People need me. I fillthem. if they can't see mefor awhile the get desperate, they getsick.but if I see them too oftenI get sick. it's hard to feedwithout getting fed. Charles Bukowski
“ There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets. . . when you leave your typewriter you leave yo… Charles Bukowski
“ It got so bad that Al thoughtmaybe it washimso he went to a shrinkand askedand the shrink said,"you're one of the sanest menI've ever met."poor Al.that made him feelworse than ever. Charles Bukowski
“ I believe that to be the world's greatest livingwriterthere must be somethingterribly wrong with you.I don't even want to be the world's greatestdead writer.just being dead would be fairenough. Charles Bukowski
