1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti

Love breaks my bones and I laugh

Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.

Something that never happens anywhere at any time.

Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.

take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning

The public takes from a writer, or a writing, what it needs and lets the remainder go. but what they take is usually what they need least and what they let go is what they need most.

I didn't like anybody in that school. I think they knew that. I think that's why they disliked me. I didn't like the way they walked or looked or talked, but I didn't like my mother or father either. I still had the feeling of being surrounded by white empty space. There was always a slight nausea in my stomach.

I wanted the whole world or nothing.