1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

If you want to create, you’ll create...

You have my soul and I have your money.

It’s better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.

There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock. People so tired, mutilated either by love or no love.

What’s genius? I don’t know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can’t help doing.

I have been treated better than I should have been – not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside – remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.

I have seen too many men wilt and go silly under a little light, and then they continue to write and get published, turning out pure crap under a name that has become a bad habit. The next poem is all that counts. You can’t stand on past poems.

Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing.