Charles Bukowski

"Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone."

"and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical senseand are not easy to fool with laughter"

"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing."

"It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well."

"Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it."

"When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble."

"those who escape hellhowevernever talk aboutitand nothing muchbothers themafterthat."

"Find what you love and let it kill you."

"I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready."

"To me, nudity is a joke. I don't think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully clothed. I like to imagine what might be under there. It might not be the standard thing. Imagine, stripping a woman down, and she has a body like a little submarine. With periscope, propellers, torpedoes. That would be the one for me. I'd marry her right off and be faithful to the end."

"She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire."

"He asked, "What makes a man a writer?""Well,"I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge."

"My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.~ Falsely yours"

"Poetry is what happens when nothing else can."

"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead."

"We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain."

"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose"

"there is a place in the heart thatwill never be filleda spaceand even during thebest momentsandthe greatest timestimeswe will know itwe will know itmore thaneverthere is a place in the heart thatwill never be filledandwe will waitandwaitin that space."

"My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.~ Falsely yours"

"be it peace or happinesslet it enfold you"