If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
Weitere Zitate von Charles Bukowski
Zum Autor"She slammed the door andwas gone.I looked at the closed doorand at the doorknoband strangelyI didn't feelalone."
"The cat is the beautiful devil."
"Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence."
"Women were beyond me.They saw somethingdepraved.There was one waitressa little older thanI, she rather smiled,lingered when shebrought mycoffee.That was plenty for me, that wasenough.- Young in New Orleans."
"(by the way . . . I realize I switch from present to past tense, and if you don't like it . . . Ram a nipple up your scrotum. -printer: leave this in.)."
"My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people."