and now sometimes I'm interviewed, they want to hear about life and literature and I get drunk and hold up my cross-eyed, shot, runover de-tailed cat and I say,"look, look at this!" but they don't understand, they say something like,"you say you've been influenced by Celine?" no," I hold the cat up,"by what happens, by things like this, by this, by this!
Charles Bukowskimy youth, one time, that time I knew even through the nothingness, it was a celebration of something not to do but only know.
Charles BukowskiNot everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer.
Charles Bukowskimy 6 foot goddess makes me laugh the laughter of the mutilated who still need love... she has saved me from everything that is not here
Charles Bukowski