More quotes by Charles Bukowski

"There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get outbut I'm too tough for him,I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you."
"those who escape hellhowevernever talk aboutitand nothing muchbothers themafterthat."
"Poetry is what happens when nothing else can."
"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead."
"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"