More quotes by Charles Bukowski

"my mother, poor fish,wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!why don't you ever smile?"and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was thesaddest smile I ever saw"
"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."
"Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them."
"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead."
"take a writer away from his typewriterand all you have leftisthe sicknesswhich started himtypingin thebeginning"