1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.

I got lost somehow, began staring up her legs. I was always a leg man. It was the first thing I saw when I was born. But then I was trying to get out. Ever since I have been working in the other direction and with pretty lousy luck.

Find what you love and let it kill you. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.

… and we are in bed together laughing and we don’t care about anything.

Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art

Homosexuals are delicate and bad poetry is delicate and [Allen] Ginsberg turned the tables by making homosexual poetry strong poetry, almost manly poetry; but in the long run, the homo will remain the homo and not the poet.

sometimes I hate you," she said.

my hands dead my heart dead silence adagio of rocks the world ablaze that's the best for me.

A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.