Charles Bukowski Quotes
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To not to have entirely wasted one's life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.
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Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
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The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It's truly ridiculous.
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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.
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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.
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I was given the job of milking the cows, finally, and it got me up earlier than anybody. But it was kind of nice, pulling at those cows' tits (pg. 172).
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Shakespeare didn't work at all for me.
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Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.
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Generally, a writer of force is anywhere from 20 years to 200 years ahead of his generation.
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Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.
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People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel hate or love.
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Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There's nothing to get excited about. They just know. They're saviours.
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'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.'
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My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.
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Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
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Money is like sex. It seems much more important when you don't have any...
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A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won't let go.
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I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
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It's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.
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Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.
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Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.
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My writing is jagged and harsh, I want it to remain that way; I don't want it smoothed out.
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Humanity, you never had it to begin with.
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I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.