1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.

I wasn’t sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren’t fools, they just didn’t fit into the needed machinery of the moment. And those needs kept altering.

“Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.”

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men’s crapper of the local bar.

If I hadn’t been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.

I can’t blame her. but wonder why she’s here with me? where are the other guys? how can you be lucky? having someone the others have abandoned?

People don’t need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn’t be.

If you let them kill you, they will.

I wish I were driving a blue 1952 Buick or a dark blue 1942 Buick or a blue 1932 Buick over a cliff of hell and into the sea.