1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

She says Thomas drank himself to death because he felt his talent was waning. Bullshit. Thomas drank himself to death for the same reason that I do: he loved his drink, it lifted him where he belonged, where we all belong, where we all should be if the stream of people weren’t such asses and didn’t believe in homes and new cars and all that junk.

and as the worms pant for your bones,I would so like to tell youthat this happens to bears and elephants

You bitch," I whispered, "I love you." Then I came.

Tenemos una sociedad de subnormales, y por eso la gente actúa como lo hace, y se hace lo que se hace.

People always talked about the good clean smell of fresh sweat. They had to make excuses for it. They never talked about the good clean smell of fresh shit. There was nothing really as glorious as a good beer shit - I mean after drinking twenty or twenty-five beers the night before. The odor of a beer shit like that spread all around and stayed for a good hour-and-a-half. It made you realize that you were really alive.

Being a common laborer all my life at poor and underpaid jobs, I had worked with more black men, known more black men, drank with more black men, fought with more black men than any theoretical liberal with books jammed between the ears.

agony sometimes changes formbut it never ceases foranybody.

MR. JONSTONE IS A FINE MAN! Don't be silly. He's an obvious sadist, I said.

you chippy hunk of shit,/don't bad mouth me! I'm/the toughest guy in town, you don't know/who the hell you're in this room/with!