When I get down to my last dime I'll just walk over to skid row." "There are some real weirdos down there." "They're everywhere.
Charles BukowskiAll a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.
Charles Bukowskiwell, i don't know about you but I'm going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. [...]. I want to know about things, what makes them work!
Charles BukowskiI don't know if this is true to you but for me sometimes it gets so bad that anything else say like looking at a bird on an overhead power line seems as great as a Beethoven symphony. then you forget it and you're back again.
Charles BukowskiTo 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.
Charles Bukowski