I am a series of
small victories
and large defeats
and I am as amazed
as any other
that I have gotten
from there to here
— Charles Bukowski 

"I want to be with you, it as simple, and as complicated as that."
— Charles Bukowski

“it is only once in a while that you see someone whose electricity and presence matches yours at that moment”
— Charles Bukowski

“You have to die a few times before you can really live.”
— Charles Bukowski

“I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.”
— Charles Bukowski

"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."
— Charles Bukowski