H.W. Charles Quotes

I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.

I can see where creation often stops while the body still lives and often does not care to. the death of life before life dies.

Dying should come easy: like a freight train you don't hear when your back is turned.

you fall into the mirror, come through the other side staring at a lightbulb.

but right now it's Bob Dylan Bob Dylan Bob Dylan all the way.

I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not.

Humanity, you never had it from the beginning." That was my motto.

my hands dead my heart dead silence adagio of rocks the world ablaze that's the best for me.

That the young rich smell the stink of the poor and learn to find it a bit amusing. They had to laugh, otherwise it would be too terrifying.

it's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with.

…He was always high on drugs. I was not a drug man, but in case I wanted to hide from myself for a few days, I knew I could get anything I wanted from him.

It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life.

that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result)

but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry.

nobody ever finds the one

When Ginsburg is at the top of his game you might as well put down your toys and listen.

...having nothing to struggle against they have nothing to struggle for.

As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed.

there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate.

It was like a church in there as only the truly lost sit in bars on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 a.m.

but isn't there always one good thing to look back on? think of how many cups of coffee we drank together.

I like the way Mahler wandered about in his music and still retained his passion. He must have looked like an earthquake walking down the street.

I'm going to open another vottle. not a vottle, but a bottle. you open it and I'll drink it. and you try to write as much as I did without falling off of your chair.

Your parents don't give you much love, do they?' 'I don't need that stuff,' I told her. 'Henry, everybody needs love.' 'I don't need anything.' 'You poor boy.

I walk into the kitchen, look at the typer down there on the floor. It's a dirty floor. It's a dirty typer that types dirty stories

I had no Freedom. I had nothing.

Let' em learn or let' em die

It’s hard to drink when you dance. And it’s hard to dance when you drink.

well, i don't know about you but I'm going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. [...]. I want to know about things, what makes them work!

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . .

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

she is no longer the beautiful woman she was. she sends photos of herself sitting upon a rock by the ocean alone and damned. I could have had her once. I wonder if she thinks I could have saved her?

t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on.

The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to lead real men in matters of blood, or courage.

I used to lay drunk in alleys and I probably will again.Bukowski, who is he? I read about Bukowski and it doesn't seem like anything to do with me.

Figuring the average poet starts at 16, I am 23.

I guess for me Hemingway is a lot like it is for others: he goes down well when we are young.

A dry period for me means perhaps going two or three nights without writing. I probably have dry periods but I'm not aware of them and I go on writing, only the writing probably isn't much good.

I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in doing it. The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.

I always tend to say "no" to everything, but now I've decided to say "yes" to everything. Now, I'm doing all sorts of things that I would've said "no" to before.

It's more interesting to put yourself in the place of Bette Davis than Irene Dunne, I guess.

I don't think I could ever go to Auschwitz, because when we took that tour of MGM, I nearly collapsed outside the Thalberg building.

I saw "Follies" again at thirty, and you know, I had this great appreciation for [Stephen] Sondheim's brilliance, his lyrics.

At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.

I grew up with "Follies." I saw it when I was fifteen. It was the original production, and of course, that production will never be equaled.

I stole that from Vito Russo. He said he was a devout believer in Judyism.

I read a lot of those Single Girl in New York books, like "Fear of Flying," where you could sort of put yourself, through transference, into the Jewish Girl in New York situation.

I've always wanted to do something where I aged a lot, went from young girl to dowager.

Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.