1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

If I stop writing I am dead. And that’s the only way I’ll stop: dead.

Hemingway and Saroyan had the line, the magic of it. The problem was that Hemingway didn’t know how to laugh and Saroyan was filled with sugar.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.

There is a place in the heart that will never be filled; a space. And even during the best moments, and the greatest times, we will know it.

I went to the bathroom and threw some water on my face, combed my hair. If I could only comb that face, I thought, but I can’t.

I don’t think I’ll travel anymore. Travel is nothing but an inconvenience. There is always enough trouble where you are.

I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible – not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance: trying to connect.

I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn’t have much to argue about.

Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you’ll never meet them.