A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class
Charles BukowskiWe are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
Charles Bukowskiit seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that I had the same effect upon him.
Charles BukowskiHell, I'd even failed with women. Three wives. Nothing really wrong each time. It all got destroyed by petty bickering. Railing about nothing. Getting pissed-off over anything and everything. Day by day, year by year, grinding. Instead of helping each other you just sliced away, picked at this or that. Goading. Endless goading. It became a cheap contest. And once you got into it, it became habitual. You couldn't seem to get out. You almost didn't want to get out. And then you did get out. All the way.
Charles Bukowski