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Nothing is worse than to finish a good shit, then reach over and find the toilet paper container empty. Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass.
Charles Bukowski -
The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.
Charles Bukowski
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If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
Charles Bukowski -
Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
Charles Bukowski -
There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.
Charles Bukowski -
I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.
Charles Bukowski -
The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.
Charles Bukowski -
Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: 'Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don't you realize that?' They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn't want to enter their minds.
Charles Bukowski
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'I squeezed Fay’s hand, kissed her on the forehead. She closed her eyes and seemed to sleep then. She was not a young woman. Maybe she hadn’t saved the world but she had made a major improvement. Ring one up for Fay.'
Charles Bukowski -
We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
Charles Bukowski -
The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.
Charles Bukowski -
Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.
Charles Bukowski -
I only type every third night. I have no plan. My mind is a blank. I sit down. The typewriter gives me things I don't even know I'm working on. It's a free lunch. A free dinner. I don't know how long it is going to continue, but so far there is nothing easier than writing.
Charles Bukowski -
What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man's soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.
Charles Bukowski
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If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many 'bads' - bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even 'bad' white males. Only, when you write about 'bad' white males, they don't complain about it. And need I say that there are 'good' blacks, 'good' homosexuals and 'good' women?
Charles Bukowski -
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
Charles Bukowski -
'I'm no preacher but I can tell you this-the lives that people lead are driving them crazy and their insanity comes out in the way they drive.'
Charles Bukowski -
To not to have entirely wasted one's life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.
Charles Bukowski -
I am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter.
Charles Bukowski -
Generally, a writer of force is anywhere from 20 years to 200 years ahead of his generation.
Charles Bukowski
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My writing is jagged and harsh, I want it to remain that way; I don't want it smoothed out.
Charles Bukowski -
Money is like sex. It seems much more important when you don't have any...
Charles Bukowski -
We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.
Charles Bukowski -
Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.
Charles Bukowski