1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

Love is not a candle burning down. Life is. And love and life are not the same or else Love, having choice, nobody would ever die.

They took all the joy out of fucking by talking about it all the time. I liked to fuck too, but it wasn't my religion.

All we do is sleep, and eat and lay around and make love. We're like slugs. Slug-love, I call it.

I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge quantities. I could feel them wondering why I wasn't dead yet and it made me feel uncomfortable. They probably weren't thinking any such thing, but then a man gets paranoid when he has 300 hangovers a year.

You're the most unknown famous man I ever met.

that's ONE thing that's wrong with intellectuals and writers - they don't feel a hell of a lot except their own comfort or their own pain. which is normal but shitty.

Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrowdid to you; I am old when it is fashionable to beyoung; I cry when it is fashionable to laugh.I hated you when it would have taken less courageto love.

That way I wouldn't have to see the guys in their walking shorts. They looked as if nothing had ever touched them- all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheet of contentment. None of them had ever been in jail, or worked hard with their hands, or even gotten a traffic ticket. Skimmed-milk jollies, the whole bunch.

Medju nama nije bilo nikakve veze, osim sto smo pili i vodili ljubav.