1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

I write right off the typer. I call it my “machinegun.” I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine and listening to classical music on the radio and smoking mangalore ganesh beedies.

There’s nothing unusual about love.

It’s just that the grape has me down.

There’s no way I can stop writing, it’s a form of insanity.

The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn’t know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.

Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don’t give a damn.

When I’m drinking around people, I tend to get silly or pugnacious or wild, which can cause problems.

We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren’t true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died.