Women Quotes

"Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman." - Henry Chinaski

"I was 50 years old and hadn't been to bed with a woman for four years."

"I believe that she too is dead now, although I'm not sure."

"I smoked cheap cigars and typed and drank and listened to classical music on the radio until dawn."

"I always exceeded my ten. Sometimes there were 17, 18, 23, 25 pages."

"She had long brown hair, quite long, a prominent nose, and one eye didn't quite match the other."

"I'm a sculptress. I want to sculpt your head."

"The scars were there, the alcoholic nose, the monkey mouth, the eyes narrowed to slits."

"After I finished dancing I came back and sat down next to you."

"I had a fight with her, and left L.A. International late one morning to give a reading in Arkansas."

"When I looked at her I could tell she was pulling her dress up over her hips."

"You're not at all the way I expected you to be."

"You make me feel good. Lydia was always on the attack."

"You're good enough with the ladies. And you're a helluva writer."

"I'm going to be great. I have more potential than you have!"

"I'm going out dancing. I'm not going to sit around alone while you drink!"

"You've been playing with me! Well, it's over! I want out!"

"Isn't there anybody in this town who will rent to a woman with two kids and a dog?"

"You act like drinking is like my going with another woman."

"If there's anything worse than a whore it's a bore."

"If there's anything worse than a bore it's a boring whore."

"I felt foolish paying money to go into a movie theatre and sit with other people to share their emotions."

"You're the most unknown famous man I ever met."

"I don't care about that. I just want to go on writing."

"I just don't know if I can handle it with this leg."

"I'll have to wait and see who the child looks like."

"I don't want her to lose her kids. Her ex-husband is trying to get them from her."

"I'm all right. I just want to get out of this town, I'm sick of this town."

"I'll suck off Bobby, I think I'll suck off Louie, I think I'll suck off my brother!"

"That's all right," I said, "but you hurt Paula too when you ran out the door after Louie."

"I hope you'll let me stay four or five days."

"You just don't give a fuck. All those love poems, you didn't mean it."

"Everything was beautiful, she told me, we had all this beauty in the world and all we had to do was reach out and touch it, it was all there and all ours for the taking."

"Where did all the women come from? The supply was endless."

"People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting, backpacking, yoga, copulating, gambling, drinking, hanging around, frozen yogurt, Beethoven, Bach, Buddha, Christ, TM, H, carrot juice, suicide, handmade suits, jet travel, New York City, and then it all evaporated and fell apart."

"Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices."

"None of us quite know how to use sex, what to do with it. With most people sex is just a toy--wind it up and let it run."

"What about love? Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss."

"I'm a rat, I'm constipated and I can't get it up."

"If you want to drink, drink; if you want to fuck, throw the bottle away."

"It's a matter of waiting. You waited and you waited--for the hospital, the doctor, the plumber, the madhouse, the jail, papa death himself."

"Humanity, you never had it from the beginning."

"Some people just keep making it and making it."

"Writing's different. You do it alone, it has nothing to do with a live audience."

"There's so much sadness in everything, even when things worked."