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












Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
More Charles Bukowski quotes
"The ass is the face of the soul of sex.
"Style is the answer to everything.A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thingTo do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous th...
"beware those quick to praise for they need praise in return beware those who are quick to censor they are afraid of what they do not know beware those...
"Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?
"If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
"I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full of stars and falseness.
"when Whitman wrote, “I sing the body electric”I know what hemeantI know what hewanted:to be completely alive every momentin spite of the inevitable.we...
"I sat back down and poured a glass of wine. I left my door open. The moonlight came in with the sounds of the city: juke boxes, automobiles, curses, d...
"there are so many dayswhen living stops and pulls up and sitsand waits like a train on the rails.
"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid one are full of confidence".
"there is a place in the heart thatwill never be filleda spaceand even during thebest momentsandthe greatest timestimeswe will know itwe will know itmo...
"I'm not a guru. I wish you wouldn't pose these things at me, man. Ask me about women or something.
"When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself...
"if you are going to try, go all the way.. Otherwise, don’t even start.. If you are going to try, go all the way.. This could mean losing girlfriends, ...