Charles Bukowski's Quotes

Charles Bukowski's Quotes 70

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy...

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals,...

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because...

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

I don't like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like...

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because...

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education...

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will...

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

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from...

When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another...

"take a writer away from his typewriter

Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the...

unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it

"nothing can save

He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You...

Ci sono cose ben peggiori di essere soli, ma spesso ci vogliono decenni per...

Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it.

M?so t? mos e shkat?rrosh me fjal? at? ?far? ke nd?rtuar me heshtje.

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it's your duty to be...

Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's...

I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it:...

"that your power of command

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