me-he could be and often was, detestable, but damn he could write!



he's been on my mind lately.






"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."

"I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life."

"It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well."

"Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style."

"Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement."

"Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities."

bukowski