"Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for t..."
- Charles Bukowski
"The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the cars. There was almost always a man and a women, staring straight ahead, not talking. It was, finally..."
"Her eyes always had a frantic, lost look. He could never cure her eyes of that."
"Endurance is more important than truth because without endurance there can't be any truth. And truth means going to the end like you mean it. That way, death itself comes up short when it grabs"
"If you can hit a guy once, you can hit him twice."
"people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin."
"I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them."
"from the beginning, through themiddle years and up to theend:too bad, too bad, too bad."
"I am sick with caring."
"It's like a movie, I thought, like a fucking movie. It seemed funny to me. It felt as if we were on camera. I liked it. It was better than the racetrack, it was better than the boxing matches. We kept..."