1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

and getting dressed we talk about what else there might be to do, but being together solves most of it, in fact, solves all of it

I was only kidding about the hundred," she says. oh," I say, "what will it cost me?" she lights her cigarette with my lighter and looks at me through the flame: her eyes tell me. look," I say, "I don't think I can ever pay that price again.

We are here to laugh at the odds.

that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result)

writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.

I'm going, she said. I love you but you're crazy, you're doomed.

We must.. We must bring our own light to the darkness

when the phone rings I too would like to hear words that might ease some of this.

too often, the only escape is sleep