I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.
Charles BukowskiBut my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.
Charles BukowskiI take much pleasure in being alone but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone.
Charles Bukowski2 p.m. beer nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses die and the landladies stare in the halls; brisk the music of pulled shades, a last man's cave in an eternity of swarm and explosion; nothing but the dripping sink, the empty bottle, euphoria, youth fenced in, stabbed and shaven, taught words propped up to die.
Charles Bukowski