All Charles Bukowski Quotes
- I'm too careless. I don't put out enough effort. I'm tired. Careless
- Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can… Convenient
- there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day Absurdity
- my mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile! why don't you… Beaten
- my 6 foot goddess makes me laugh the laughter of the mutilated who still need love... she has saved me from everything that is not… Feet
- I can't blame her. but wonder why she's here with me? where are the other guys? how can you be lucky? having someone the others… Abandoned
- Those who preach god, need god Those who preach peace do not have peace Those who preach love do not have love God
- great books are the ones we need Book
- people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means… Academy
- of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily… Bad
- I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread Bread
- young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer. Bad
- 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 going… Been
- not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse. Good
- I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me. Book
- writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all All
- places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notice that? Canaries
- Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we… Animal
- there's no defense except all the errors made All
- bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it Bad
- I mean, say that you figure that everything is senseless, then it can't be quite senseless because you are aware that it's senseless and your… Almost Gives
- the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want… Anybody
- Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were… Asked
- I went over to see Marina two or three or four times a week. I knew as long as I could see the girl I… Able
- yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down… Down