Charles Bukowski Quotes

I'm not fond of crowds. I'm no jittery neurotic, but I don't really want to be surrounded by a lot of people if I have a choice.

I'm a weirdo. I don't leave the house unless I have to.

When I read books it's to escape. It's so I don't have to talk to people.

I am such a notorious hermit - almost pathological. And, I'm not a hoarder. But that's just a symptom of things that I do feel.

She didn't like to be alone. Even more, she didn't like being with people. (148)

I don't beef with people, because I don't be around people. Nobody can't say nothing about me, because ain't nobody know nothing about me.

I can't have a lot of people around me all the time. It really bugs me out that I have that many people. I need to be by myself.

A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.

Loneliness in a crowd of people was the worst kind of loneliness, but she couldn't help it.

And I would try and walk far enough away that people would not assume I was with him.

What was the point in such loneliness among people. At least if you were by yourself, you had a good reason to be lonely.

My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.

People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.

Fear is the loneliest feeling. You can be in a throng of people, but if you're afraid, you're on your own.

Lately he'd been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner.

I can't hang around with lots of people these days because I am hypersensitive. So when I am around a lot of people or a big roomful of people I get almost autistic. I get overwhelmed and really tired. So I don't like being around large groups.

I'll probably never have children because I don't believe in touching people for any reason.

Society is no comfort, to one not sociable.

I approached work very seriously. I never went out. I couldn't fathom people who could go out to clubs... But I definitely went through a time where I was just terrified and exhausted and I didn't really understand. Hollywood... It just got to be too much for me.

It's time to float on the waters of the night. Time to wrap my arms around this book and press it to my chest, life preserver in a seat of unremarkable men and women anonymous faces on the street, a hundred thousand unalphabitized things a million forgotten hours.

Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.

People come and people go, moving fast and moving slow, I'm in a crowd and yet I'm all alone.

I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me.

I shouldn't leave the house or interact with people ever.

Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.