The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the Watchtower itch: you gotta be with us, man, or youre out, youre dead. This pitch is a continual and seeming MUST with those who use the stuff. Its no wonder they keep getting busted. – Charles Bukowski
I would be married, but Id have no wife, I would be married to a single life. – Charles Bukowski
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later in a dictatorship you dont have to waste your time voting. – 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
Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in a new manner under the influence of marijuana, and these apprehensions have remained valid in years of normal consciousness. – Allen Ginsberg
If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, youre out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung. If you think you need stuff to play music or sing, youre crazy. It can fix you so you cant play nothing or sing nothing. – Billie Holiday