All Charles Bukowski Quotes
- Do some living and get yourself a typewriter. Funny
- there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed.… Alone
- The park grass looked greener, the park benches looked better and the flowers were trying harder. Benches
- the beautiful are found in the edge of a room crumpled into spiders and needles and silence and we can never understand why they left,they… Beautiful
- It was only the matter of a new voice. Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of one's self, like… Anymore
- Sometimes a man doesn’t know what to do about things and sometimes it’s best to lie very still and try not to think at all… All
- It’s so easy to be easy—if you let it. Easy
- Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away… Always Like
- People don't do me much good. Funny
- I didn't like parties.I didn't know how to dance and people frightened me, especially people at parties. They attempted to be sexy and gay and… Attempted
- When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat. Didn
- To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit… Agony
- What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman. Man
- Love dries up, I thought as I walked back to the bathroom, even faster than sperm. Bathroom
- Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say what needs to he said?… All
- I'm not the cruel type, but they are, and that's the secret. Cruel
- God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I… Anybody
- I sit on the couch watching her arrange her long red hair before my bedroom mirror. she pulls her hair up and piles it on… Arm
- It was sad, it was sad, it was sad. When Betty came back we didn't sing or laugh, or even argue. We sat drinking in… Argue
- The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence. Confidence
- You know the typical crowd, Wow, it’s Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there? Well, yeah. Because there’s nothing out there.… All
- from the beginning, through the middle years and up to the end: too bad, too bad, too bad. Bad
- you are on the freeway threading through traffic now, moving both towards something and towards nothing at all as you punch the radio on and… Alike
- there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed.… Alone
- The blankets had fallen off and I stared down at her white back, the shoulder blades sticking out as if they wanted to grow into… Blades