We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the mens crapper of the local bar. – Charles Bukowski
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. – Charles Bukowski
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 Ill show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities. – Charles Bukowski
I would be married, but Id have no wife, I would be married to a single life. – Charles Bukowski
A mere compilation of facts presents only the skeleton of History; we do but little for her if we cannot invest her with life, clothe her in the habiliments of her day, and enable her to call forth the sympathies of succeeding generations. – Hannah Farnham Lee, The Huguenots in France and America