Charles Bukowski Quotes
- Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
- 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…
- An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
- If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
- If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
- Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with…
- It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.
- You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
- Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
- I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
- 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…
- We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
- To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.
- Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
- Never get out of bed before noon.
- I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
- Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.
- Anybody can be a non-drunk. It takes a special talent to be a drunk. It takes endurance. Endurance is more important than truth.
- Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with...
- Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that's why we get along.