I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge quantities. I could feel them wondering why I wasn't dead yet and it made me uncomfortable. They probably weren't thinking any such thing, but then a man gets paranoid when he has 300 hangovers a year.
Charles BukowskiI am a dolt of a man, easily made happy or even stupidly happy almost without cause and left alone I am mostly content.
Charles BukowskiSimplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity
Charles Bukowskiand then there are some who believe that old relationships can be revived and made new again. but please if you feel that way don't phone don't write don't arrive
Charles BukowskiThose who preach god, need god Those who preach peace do not have peace Those who preach love do not have love
Charles Bukowskidont undress my love you might find a mannequin dont undress the mannequin you might find love. shes long ago forgotten me. hes trying on a new hat and looks more the coquette then ever. she is a child and a mannequin and death. i can't hate that. she didnt do anything unusual. I only wanted her to.
Charles Bukowski