All Charles Bukowski Quotes
- Few beautiful women were willing to indicate in public that they belonged to someone. I had known enough women to realize this. I accepted them… Accepted
- There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity. Form
- Where did all the women come from? The supply was endless. Each one of them was individual, different. Their pussies were different, their kisses were… All
- Find what you love and let it kill you. Death
- The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the cars. There was almost always a… Ahead
- People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it. Animal
- As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People… Anywhere
- When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was… Age
- But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie… Across
- I think I need a drink.' 'Almost everybody does only they don't know it. Alcohol
- Of course, there would always be arguments. That is the nature of Woman. They like the mutual exchange of dirty laundry, a bit of screaming,… Argument
- The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich. Always Sitting
- The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page. Alone
- The less I needed, the better I felt. Better
- The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up. Been
- There still might be a place for us somewhere. Inspirational
- I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was… All
- Only the boring get bored Bored
- Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . . Humor
- To be young is the only religion. Funny
- One more drink and you're dead. This is no way to talk to a suicide head. Dead
- take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning All
- I like women who haven’t lived with too many men. I don’t expect virginity but I simply prefer women who haven’t been rubbed raw by… Affection
- I've never met another man I'd rather be. Another Man
- LSD, yeah, the big parade – everybody's doin' it now. Take LSD, then you are a poet, an intellectual. What a sick mob. I am… Big