1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

You were destroyed by what you befriended.

Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

human relationships simply aren't durable. I think back to the women in my life. they seem non-existent.

There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.

I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I am pretty good at doing that. I don't like writers, but then I don't like insurance salesmen either.

No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less.

If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead.

I can see where creation often stops while the body still lives and often does not care to. the death of life before life dies.