Rubaiat

“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“[My father] murmured only, 'you can always tell when a woman is ready for sex. Oh yes. Her ears get hot.'

I looked keenly at Helen's ears. I even reached out and pinched one of them lightly, for scientific confirmation. Warmish!”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia

“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people: those who knew what they wanted to do; those (the unhappiest) who never knew what their purpose in life was; and those who found out later on. I was in the last category, I reckoned, which didn't stop me wishing I'd been born into the first.”
― Hanif Kureishi , The Buddha of Suburbia