12 Quotes by Bukowski

... many of the rich and the famous were actually dumb cunts and bastards. They had simply fallen into a bif pay-off somewhere. Or they were enriched by the stupidity of the general public. They usually were talentless, eyeless, soulless, they were walking piece of dung, but to the public they were god-like, beautiful and revered. Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste...

Belane, are you nuts?"Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?

I like dogs better than men and cats better than dogs and myself best of all, drunk in my underwear looking out the window.

Kita semua akan mati, semuanya. Menakutkan bukan? Alasan itu saja seharusnya membuat kita saling mencintai, tetapi tidak. Kita diteror dan digilas oleh hal-hal yang remeh dalam hidup; ditelan oleh kehampaan.

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 an Aug. 1965 letter to Jim Roman "On Cats

I felt like a still live fish on ice in a butcher’s counter on Friday morning.- On Cats

The cat is the beutiful devil. And here we can use the word, even without the “a.”- from a Dec. 21 1960, a letter to Sheri Martinelli"On Cats

I don't hate people. I just feel better when they aren't around.

Estamos aquí para desaprender las enseñanzas de la iglesia, el estado y nuestro sistema educativo. Estamos aquí para tomar cerveza. Estamos aquí para matar la guerra. Estamos aquí para reírnos del destino y vivir tan bien nuestra vida que la muerte tiemble al recibirnos.