A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
Charles BukowskiI was their bar freak, they needed me to make themselves feel better. just like, at times, I needed that graveyard.
Charles BukowskiEach person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.
Charles BukowskiPeople are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
Charles Bukowski