1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be.

I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead; men without eyes, men without voices; men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions; men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideas.

Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn't so.

How are his poems?" "He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.

we had such tremendous fun and much agony together for some years

Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.

The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up.

I like the way Mahler wandered about in his music and still retained his passion. He must have looked like an earthquake walking down the street.

Those who preach god, need god Those who preach peace do not have peace Those who preach love do not have love