Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness Quotes

“The human race had always disgusted me. essentially, what made them disgusting was the family-relationship illness, which included marriage, exchange of power and aid, which neighborhood, your district, your city, your county, your state, your nation-everybody grabbing each other's assholes in the Honeycomb of survival out of a fear-animalistic stupidity.”
― Charles Bukowski, Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness

“La poesía dice demasiado en demasiado poco tiempo; la prosa dice demasiado poco y se toma demasiado tiempo.”
― Charles Bukowski, Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness

“Vaya sorpresa que te vas a llevar, amigo... ¡cuando descubras que nosotros los viejos retrógrados queremos también un mundo mejor! ¡sólo que no somos partidarios de QUEMAR la casa para librarnos de las termitas!”
― Charles Bukowski, Fuck Machine

“Queriendo decir que la muerte siempre gana y que todos tenemos mierda debajo de las uñas”
― Charles Bukowski, Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness

“when a man puts that uniform on that he is the paid protector of things of the present time. he is here to see that things stay the way they are. if you like the way things are, then all cops are good cops. if you don’t like the way things are, then all cops are bad cops.”
― Charles Bukowski, Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness