1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

A dry period for me means perhaps going two or three nights without writing. I probably have dry periods but I’m not aware of them and I go on writing, only the writing probably isn’t much good.

I’m too careless. I don’t put out enough effort. I’m tired.

If you are going to try, go all the way or don’t even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.

It’s so easy to be easy – if you let it.

I’m going, she said. I love you but you’re crazy, you’re doomed.

It was sad, it was sad, it was sad. When Betty came back we didn’t sing or laugh, or even argue. We sat drinking in the dark, smoking cigarettes, and when we went to sleep, I didn’t put my feet on her body or she on mine like we used to. We slept without touching. We had both been robbed.

Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can’t break out of the movie. And it’s a bad one.

Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all alike. And I’ve got to live with these fuckers for the rest of my life, I thought.

I knew it would be you.