Charles Bukowski Quotes

Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.

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

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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.

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If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

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Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and Monday morning hangovers.

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

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There is a time to stop reading, there is a time to STOP trying to WRITE, there is a time to kick the whole bloated sensation of ART out on its whore-ass.

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Never get out of bed before noon.

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Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

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The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the ''Watchtower'' itch you gotta be with us, man, or you're out, you're dead. This pitch is a continual and seeming MUST with those who use the stuff. It's no wonder they keep getting busted.

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If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

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Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

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Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.

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Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

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

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

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To do a dull thing with style-now THAT'S what I call art.

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

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I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

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

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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.

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That's what friendship means -- sharing the prejudice of experience.

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

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Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

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