Charles Bukowski, Betting On The Muse: Poems And Stories Quotes

(the whole world is at thethroat of the world, everybody feels angry, short-changed, cheated, everybody is despondent, disillusioned.)I welcomed shots of peace, tattered shards ofhappiness.

a life can change in a tenth ofa second.or sometimes it can take70years.

I could never acceptlife as it was, I could never gobbledown all itspoisonsbu there were parts, tenuous magic partsopen for theasking.

the people are the biggesthorror show on earth, have been forcenturies.

I can see wherecreation oftenstops while thebody still livesand oftendoes not careto.the death of lifebefore lifedies.

Ithink that theworld should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, justcats andrain, rain and cats, very nice, goodnight.

Don't you go to the movies?""Mostly just to eat popcorn in the dark.