“show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually dirty kitchen, and 5 times out of 9 I'll show you… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
..few writers like other writers' works. The only time they like them is when they are dead or if they have been… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“dear J: I feel lucky that I didn’t fuck you the first time we met in Houston, but luckier that I didn’t… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“But they were all tricks.They were very dull. There were pages and pages of words that didn't say anything.Or if they did… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“there is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even during the best moments and the… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Cautiously, I allowed myself to feel good at times. I found moments of peace in cheap rooms just staring at the knobs… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I was their bar freak, they needed me to make themselves feel better. just like, at times, I needed that graveyard. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“a life can change in a tenth of a second. or sometimes it can take 70 years.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“the bar was the best place to hide in. time came under your control, time to wade in, time to do nothing… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“This future running toward us paralyzes the wallet and the brain.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
my youth, one time, that time I knew even through the nothingness, it was a celebration of something not to do but… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Was I the only person who was distracted by this future without a chance? — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“There are still things to be handle; there will always be things to be handled. Nobody ever gets caught up and finished… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren’t fools, they just didn’t fit into the… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
If you can't write the next line, well, you're dead. The past doesn't matter. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Once in a rare lifetime have you ever been in a roomful of people who only helped you when you looked at… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“There is a time to stop reading, there is a time to STOP trying to WRITE, there is a time to kick… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and the hours, days, weeks years seem wasted – stretched there upon… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. A writer who has to go into the streets is… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“nerves twitching in the sheets -- to face the sunlight again, that's clearly trouble. I like the city better when the neon lights are… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Their Love Is Average, Seeks Average But There Is Genius In Their Hatred” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I climbed the stairway (there was no elevator) and put the key in. The door swung open. Somebody had changed all the furniture around,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Strangers when you meet, strangers when you part -a gymnasium of bodies namelessly masturbating each other. People with no morals often considered themselves more… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I was like a turd that drew flies instead of like a flower that butterflies and bees desired. I wanted to live alone,I felt… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
