Charles Bukowski, Women Quotes

being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.

As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any.

The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.

All we do is sleep, and eat and lay around and make love. We're like slugs. Slug-love, I call it.

I think I need a drink.''Almost everybody does only they don't know it.

Potential, " I said, "doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.

I went to the kitchen and felt-up the turkey.

She had wild eyes, slightly insane. She also carried an overload of compassion that was real enough and which obviously cost her something.

I write fiction""What’s fiction?""Fiction is an improvement on life.

I don't know. It's been terribly hard for me. How do I know you won't do it again?''Nobody is ever quite sure of what they will do. You aren't sure what you might do.

You're the most unknown famous man I ever met

I began to feel like a kept man and it felt great.

I didn't like anything. Maybe I was afraid. That was it - I was afraid. I wanted to sit alone in a room with the shades down. I feasted upon that. I was a crank. I was a lunatic.

Goodness could be found sometimes in the middle of hell.