When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.
Charles BukowskiFew beautiful women were willing to indicate in public that they belonged to someone. I had known enough women to realize this. I accepted them for what they were and love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons. One simply became tired of holding back love and let it go because it needed some place to go. Then, usually, there was trouble.
Charles BukowskiAnd I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life.
Charles Bukowski