This is a world where everybody’s gotta do something. Ya know, somebody laid down this rule that everybody’s gotta do something, they gotta be something. You know, a dentist, a glider pilot, a narc, a janitor, a preacher, all that . . . Sometimes I just get tired of thinking of all the things that I don’t wanna do. All the things that I don’t wanna be. Places I don’t wanna go, like India, like getting my teeth cleaned. Save the whale, all that, I don’t understand that . . .
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 Bukowskiyou boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old.
Charles BukowskiI would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a coffee cup in a park for old men playing chess or silly games of some sort.
Charles Bukowski