1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

Are you becoming what you've always hated?

agony sometimes changes form but it never ceases for anybody.

That's how it is with books, isn't it: They're not in a hurry. They'll wait for you till you're ready. People empty me. I have to go away to refill.

Thanksgiving. It proved you had survived another year with its wars, inflation, unemployment, smog, presidents. It was a grand neurotic gathering of clans: loud drunks, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, screaming children, would-be suicides. And don't forget indigestion. I wasn't different from anyone else: There sat the 18-pound bird on my sink, dead, plucked, totally disemboweled. Iris would roast it for me.

Four days alone with nothing. Emerge empowered. The first human face you see will knock you back 50%.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

I'll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love.

I broke that town in half like a wooden match.

Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out.