You just rebel against everything. How are you going to survive? I don't know. I'm already tired.
Charles BukowskiI don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?
Charles BukowskiBut then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie of them all, because that was telling him to go on, to continue which was the worst way for a man without real talent to waste his life, finally. But many people did just that, friends and relatives mostly.
Charles Bukowski