1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

It’s hell when you’re too good to make money.

where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die,

It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.

I was alone with myself. And disgusting as I was it was better than being with somebody else, anybody else, all of them out there doing their pitiful little tricks and handsprings.

You understand, we just don't fuck with truth.

I see a brightportionunder the overhead lightthat shades intodarknessand then into darkerdarknessand I can't see beyond that.

there are so many dayswhen living stops and pulls up and sitsand waits like a train on the rails.

great books are the ones we need

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.