1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

I was only photographing in words the reality of it all.

Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . .

The worst men have the best jobs the best men have the worst jobs or are unemployed or locked in madhouses.

You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.

People were interesting at first. Then later, slowly but surely, all the flaws and madness would manifest themselves. I would become less and less to them; they would mean less and less to me.

My part of the game is that I must live the best I can.

You have my soul and I have your money

Sometimes a man doesn’t know what to do about things and sometimes it’s best to lie very still and try not to think at all about anything.

A woman has to have something on or there's nothing to take off.