you've got to burn straight up and down and then maybe sidewise for a while and have your guts scrambled by a bully and the demonic ladies, you've got to run along the edge of madness teetering, you've got to starve like a winter alleycat, you've go to live with the imbecility of at least a dozen cities, then maybe maybe maybe you might know where you are for a tiny blinking moment.
Charles Bukowski...in that drunken place you would like to hand your heart to her and say touch it but then give it back.
Charles BukowskiI didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.
Charles BukowskiPeople don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.
Charles Bukowski