Charles Bukowski Quotes

If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.

I'm not even speaking to people any more; I just want to be reading my Kindle the whole time!

As evidenced during my failed audition, I'm a thorough introvert who would completely hate living in a 'Real World' house. I would have taken my Ikea comforter to the confessional room and never come out.

I don't like new environments. I don't like being around a lot of new people. It makes me uncomfortable.

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

One day I shall write a little book of conduct myself, and I shall call it Social Problems of the Unsociable. And the root problem, beneath a hundred varying manifestions, is How to Escape. How to escape, that is, at those times, be they few or frequent, when you want to keep yourself to yourself.

I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.

I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.

It's awkward going to parties with people you don't know, especially when they think they know you.

I'm good at being on my own. As a kid, I was always in my room alone, so I have a high threshold for it. If I'm bored, I'll read. Hanging around doesn't go well with me.

I've always felt happy in my own company. It's only when I get around other people that things get sticky.

Being around lots of people drains me, and alone time is essential to my well-being.

I'm quite a loner. I realized that I'm very introverted, and I get energy by being alone instead of being with other people.

I've been called a recluse. There's definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.

I don't like going out. I hate clubs. I hate being around too many people. I love my home and staying in bed and watching 'Dancing With the Stars' or reading a Danielle Steel novel.

I'm really outgoing, but there's times I want to be by myself.

I'm a very private person, not much of a party person. That's how I keep my sanity.

There's a time in everybody's life they really don't want to talk to people: they want to get away from talking or being on the phone and stuff.

I definitely enjoy my time by myself - and that's kind of the weird thing about touring; you're kind of constantly surrounded by people - but I actually do enjoy going out and doing things and being around people.

I'm a bit of an introvert, so after talking for an hour and then shaking hands and taking pictures with the people who came out, I kind of need to be alone for a bit to get away from all stimuli.

I have to be me, which is, don't like a lot of crowds, don't like a lot of attention - kind of being by myself.

My mind is not suited to go much into company.

I'm particularly weird because I don't even like being looked at.

From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books at enormous speed and judged them entirely on her ability to remove her from her material surroundings. In almost all the unhappiest days of her life she had been able to escape from her own inner world by living temporarily in someone else’s, and on the two or three occasions that she had been too upset to concentrate she had been desolate.

i have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side.