1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a coffee cup in a park for old men playing chess or silly games of some sort.

People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.

If you can't write the next line, well, you're dead. The past doesn't matter.

Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.

True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.

we drove on and on, past little villages and both good things and bad things were happening to the people in those villages too, but I still was nothing but arms and ears and eyes and maybe there'd be either some good luck for me or more death tomorrow.

Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned.

This incompleteness is all we have.

I pretend to understand because I don't want anybody to be hurt