1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.

Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.

but right now it's Bob Dylan Bob Dylan Bob Dylan all the way.

If you can only remain pure in your stupidity, someday you may get a phone call from hell.

It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

he asked, "what makes a man a writer?" "well," I said, "it's simple, it's either you get it down on paper or you jump off a bridge. writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers." "are you desperate?" "I don't know...

I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that I wanted a job, that I was qualified for a job, was too much for me. Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.

There is no hurry. Time means nothing to you.

I can almost understand why people leap from bridges.