Charles Bukowski's 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 have to waste your time voting.

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 detestable spiritual qualities.

It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

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 to be taken.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

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.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

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.