We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting
Charles BukowskiPull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire, the bed, the walls, the room; all our necessities including love, rest on foundations of sand - and any given cause, no matter how unrelated: the death of a boy in Hong Kong or a blizzard in Omaha ... can serve as your undoing. all your chinaware crashing to the kitchen floor, your girl will enter and you'll be standing, drunk, in the center of it and she'll ask: my god, what's the matter? and you'll answer: I don't know, I don't know.
Charles Bukowskimy greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II.
Charles Bukowskiit is good to be sitting some place in public at 2:30 in the afternoon without getting the flesh ripped from your bones.
Charles Bukowski