People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial t... - Charles Bukowski

"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."

"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."

"nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing."

"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."