1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

I’m going to open another vottle. not a vottle, but a bottle. you open it and I’ll drink it. and you try to write as much as I did without falling off of your chair.

The hangover was brutal but he didn’t mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, someplace good.

There’s a light somewhere. It may not be much light but it beats the darkness.

I’m only interested in poetry.

Don’t wait for the good woman. She doesn’t exist. There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd.

I give you soul. I give you wisdom and light and music and a bit of laughter. Also, I am the world’s greatest horseplayer.

Long before I became ‘rich and famous’ I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.

Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity.

Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else’s truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that’s great.