1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

I never felt right being alone; sometimes it felt good but it never felt right.

Fiction is an improvement on life.

Don’t wait for the good woman. She doesn’t exist.

LSD, yeah, the big parade – everybody’s doin’ it now. Take LSD, then you are a poet, an intellectual. What a sick mob. I am building a machine gun in my closet now to take out as many of them as I can before they get me.

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on.

If it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it.

Life’s as kind as you let it be.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.

You’ve got to rise from the floor alone or fall back alone.