Quotes from Charles Bukowski, Women

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

I went to the kitchen and felt-up the turkey.

The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.

Goodness could be found sometimes in the middle of hell.

I write fiction""What's fiction?""Fiction is an improvement on life.

Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any.

You're the most unknown famous man I ever met

I don't know. It's been terribly hard for me. How do I know you won't do it again?''Nobody is ever quite sure of what they will do. You aren't sure what you might do.

All we do is sleep, and eat and lay around and make love. We're like slugs. Slug-love, I call it.

She had wild eyes, slightly insane. She also carried an overload of compassion that was real enough and which obviously cost her something.