1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

I suppose like others I have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple sound of water running in tubs and wished to drown.

The more crap you believe, the better off you are.

I don’t carry notebooks and I don’t consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I am pretty good at doing that. I don’t like writers, but then I don’t like insurance salesmen either.

People don’t do me much good.

I’ve never met another man I’d rather be.

I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It’s as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous.

If you can’t write the next line, well, you’re dead. The past doesn’t matter.

I don’t like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

You don’t go on “probably” when love and guns are in hand.