All Charles Bukowski Quotes
- In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking… Around Licking
- Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable… Answer
- Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me. Alcohol
- Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one. Another Way
- Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls. Became
- I think a man can keep on drinking for centuries, he'll never die; especially wine or beer...I like drunkards, man, because drunkards, they come out… Ago
- I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. All
- When I'm drinking around people, I tend to get silly or pugnacious or wild, which can cause problems. Around People
- I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. Bars
- Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores. Amateurs
- Almost everyone is born a genius and buried an idiot. Almost Everyone
- The hangover was brutal but he didn't mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, someplace good. Been
- Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge. Empowerment
- Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone. Alone
- Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell. Found
- I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn't particularly want money. I… Ahead
- I would say that Mickey Mouse has a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovitch, Lenin, and/or Van Gogh. Which… American
- I have two rules. One is, never trust a man who smokes a pipe. The other is, never trust a man with shiny shoes. Man
- Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors. Abolished
- The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act. Act