Charles Bukowski Want Quotations

the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them

You've got to know when to let a woman go if you want to keep her,and if you don't want to keep her you let her go anyhow so it's always a process of letting go, one way or the other.

There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.

If you want to know where God is, ask a drunk.

There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out.

I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off.

If you want to create, you'll create...

I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do — mostly with my time.

I pretend to understand because I don't want anybody to be hurt

I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.

What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.

But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.

I no longer want it all, just some comfort and some sex and some minor love.