Bukowski In The Bathtub Quotes

“I hope that I never become a vogue. A vogue is damned and doomed forever.”
― Charles Bukowski, Bukowski In The Bathtub: Recollections Of Charles Bukowski With John Thomas

“History, of course, makes a president big news and the assassination of one more so. However, I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead: men without eyes, men without voices; men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions; men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideals. Kennedy himself was 9/10ths the way around the clock or he wouldn't have accepted such an enervating and enfeebling job--meaning President of the United States of America. How can I be over concerned with the murder of one man when almost all men, plus females, are taken from cribs as babies and almost immediately thrown into the masher?”
― Charles Bukowski, Bukowski In The Bathtub: Recollections Of Charles Bukowski With John Thomas