1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

A woman has to have something on or there’s nothing to take off.

Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they’ll spit on you.

My flesh looked like it wasn’t trying. It looked like it hated being part of me.

I felt I had to win. It seemed very important. I didn’t know why it was important and I kept thinking, why do I think this is so important? And another part of me answered, just because it is.

Only the boring get bored.

I seldom know what I’m going to write when I sit down. There isn’t much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in doing it. The writing’s easy, it’s the living that is sometimes difficult.

The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable.

Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn’t so.

I’m not the cruel type, but they are, and that’s the secret.