He asked, "What makes a man a writer?""Well,"I said, "it's s... - Charles Bukowski

"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."

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

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

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

"Some lose all mind and become soul,insane.some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.some lose both and become accepted"