1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

In a more universal sense, we only get one thing. You know...a head stone if we're lucky; if not, green grass.

I knew exactly what I was doing: I was doing nothing. because I knew there was nothing to do.

I've learned to feel good when I feel good. it's better to be driven around in a red porsche than to own one. the luck of the fool is inviolate.

I don't remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.

Writers are nothing but beggars with a good line.

If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.

Some of my poems indicate that I am writing while living alone after a split with a woman, and I've had many splits with women. I need solitude more often when I'm not writing than when I am.

‎"she’ mad but she’ magic. there’ no lie in her fire.

And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.