CHARLES BUKOWSKI QUOTES

...the impossibility of being human

 For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter. The old story of good and evil.

 I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water.

 I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it

 If I want to kill myself I feel that should be my business.

 People had to find things to do while waiting to die. I guess it was nice to have a choice.

"I've given you my time. It's all I've got to give - it's all any man has. And for a pitiful buck and a quarter an hour

I am building a machine gun in my closet now to take out as many of them as I can before they get me

“Faith is all right for those who have it. Just don’t load it on me. I have more faith in my plumber than I do in the eternal being. Plumbers do a good job. They keep the shit flowing.”

“Perhaps living through these petty days will get us ready for the dangerous ones.”