Charles Bukowski

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter. ”

The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist. ”

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation. ”

To not to have entirely wasted one's life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself. ”

I don't like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions. ”

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: 'Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don't you realize that?' They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn't want to enter their minds. ”

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar. ”

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting. ”

The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It's truly ridiculous. ”

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. ”