1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

I am for the small man who has not forgotten, for the man who loves his beer and his women and his sunlight

Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang around, kid, it's good here, it can be very good here.

...maybe a damned good night's sleep will bring me back to a gentle sanity. But at the moment, I look about this room and, like myself, it's all in disarray: things fallen out of place, cluttered, jumbled, lost, knocked over and I can't put it straight, don't want to. Perhaps living through these petty days will get us ready for the dangerous ones.

I think I need a drink.' 'Almost everybody does only they don't know it.

as the spirit wanes the form appears

It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as our blood runs through our fragile life.

nobody ever finds the one

Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit.

eleven months. now she's gone gone as they go.