1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

The human heart, as of course we all know is essentially good.

I walk into the kitchen, look at the typer down there on the floor. It’s a dirty floor. It’s a dirty typer that types dirty stories.

I never met another man I’d rather be. And even if that’s a delusion, it’s a lucky one.

I’ve found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not.

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.

It’s hot tonight and half the neighborhood is drunk. the other half is dead. if I have any advice about writing poetry it’s – don’t. I’m going to send out for some fried chicken.

I would give anything for a female’s hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain.

They laughed. Things were funny. They weren’t afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.

To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you’re frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.