Charles Bukowski Quotes

I'm somewhat socially inept. Slide me between two strangers at any light-hearted jamboree and I'll either rock awkwardly and silently on my heels, or come out with a stone-cold conversation-killer like, "This room's quite rectangular, isn't it?" I glide through the social whirl with all the elegance of a dog in high heels

It is always terrible to be told to go play with people one doesn't know.

No matter what I do with my life, or how successful I am, I will always be a socially awkward penguin inside.

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.

I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.

One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it.

It's bloody annoying being shy. I'll spend a whole evening at a party asking everyone else about themselves. I'm not being self-deprecating; it's because I'm too shy to talk about myself. So people come away from the evening actually having learnt nothing about me.

The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.

Countries are like adolescent entering a dance ... they're sure everybody is thinking about nothing but their inadequacies.

I'm one of those people that if I go to a party, I can't remember my mother's name because I'm so nervous in a social situation.

When you're with a bunch of loud 20-year-olds, if you're on a movie and everybody is a lot younger than you and they want you to go to a club, I'm not very comfortable in that situation. I've been on movies when everybody goes out to some loud place. I don't know; I'm not comfortable.

It's really hard for me to be around people I admire.

I'm a social cripple in a cocktail party. My idea of a nightmare is people standing very elegantly dressed in a room with a drink in their hand. I'm just like, 'Urghh!'

It wasn't easy for me to socialize with other kids when I got back from touring. I felt different. Like we all do, but I didn't feel like I got all the codes. I was a little awkward.

I feel like a lot of creative people are socially awkward.

Cocktail parties for me can be nerve-racking. The brevity of conversations, the number of them - it's not my sweet spot.

I'm 87% socially awkward.

No one escapes the teenage years without a lot of challenges. I had many. I was awkward. Petrified of boys.

I'd never dance at school discos, I couldn't believe people could show themselves like that.

I am afraid I am totally hermetic to social games in general.

I was nerdy and awkward and didn't know how to talk to people - except online.

I just don't have that natural instinct to be able to let my guard down and start speaking to people. I never have - I've always been a bit socially awkward, even with people I've known for a long time.

It was one of those parties where you cough twice before you speak and then decide not to say it after all.

I've always felt a bit weird, very shy.

Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault.