Money Quotes by Charles Bukowski

There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.

— Charles Bukowski

You have my soul and I have your money

— Charles Bukowski

“Wealth meant victory and victory was the only reality. What”

— Charles Bukowski

“It’s hell when you’re too good to make money.”

— Charles Bukowski

Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse.

— Charles Bukowski

“Money is like sex,' I said. 'It seems much more important when you don't have any...' 'You talk like a writer,' said…

— Charles Bukowski

Writing is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and afterwards she gets up, goes to her purse and gives me…

— Charles Bukowski

“I know what a park bench is and the landlord's knock. There are only two things wrong with money: too much or…

— Charles Bukowski

I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.

— Charles Bukowski

Lawyers, doctors, plumbers, they all made the money. Writers? Writers starved. Writers suicided. Writers went mad.

— Charles Bukowski

“The good times were over. Nobody gave a shit and nobody had any money and if they had any, they kept it.”

— Charles Bukowski

Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.

— Charles Bukowski

“but, baby, I love your money! you never once said you loved me! what do you want a liar or a lover?”

— Charles Bukowski

Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers,…

— Charles Bukowski

Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the…

— Charles Bukowski

“mainly thinking, well, I'm still alive and have the ability to expel wastes from my body and poems. and as long as…

— Charles Bukowski

“sometimes you’ve got to kill 4 or 5 thousand men before you somehow get to believe that the sparrow is immortal, money…

— Charles Bukowski

“She made the same money in ten minutes that I had made in a day with some hours thrown in. Monetarily speaking,…

— Charles Bukowski

“I could stay here, I thought, make money at the track while she nurses me over the bad moments, rubs oil on…

— Charles Bukowski

“How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress,…

— Charles Bukowski

“Women wanted men who made money, women wanted men of mark. How many classy women were living with skid row bums? Well,…

— Charles Bukowski

Are people crazy? People waited all their lives. They waited to live, they waited to die. They waited in line to buy…

— Charles Bukowski

“Jack with the hair hanging, Jack demanding money, Jack of the big gut, Jack of the loud, loud voice, Jack of the…

— Charles Bukowski

“So you want to be a writer if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it.…

— Charles Bukowski

“We waited and waited. All of us. Didn't the shrink know that waiting was one of the things that drove people crazy?…

— Charles Bukowski

“there wasn't a stove and we put cans of beans in hot water in the sink to heat them up and we…

— Charles Bukowski

“blood money blood money my god they must think I love this like the others but it’s for bread and beer and…

— Charles Bukowski