"I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
Life's as kind as you let it be.
More Charles Bukowski quotes
"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...
"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.
"I'm not a guru. I wish you wouldn't pose these things at me, man. Ask me about women or something.
"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, ...
"Some people never go crazy, what truly horrible lives they must live.
"The factories, the jails, the drunken days and nights, the hospitals have weakened and shaken me like a mouse in the mouth of a hip-cat: life.- from a...
"You understand, we just don't fuck with truth.
"The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.
"People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
"Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately ... good looking stuff; you're doing all right.""Sam," I say, "that's not true; I am one of...
"I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.
"I write poetry, worry, smile,laughsleepcontinue for a whilejust like most of usjust like all of us;sometimes I want to hug allMankind on earthand say,...