Quotes from Bukowski

Belane, are you nuts? Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?

If you want to create, you'll create...

Me working and you laying around. All the neighbors think I am supporting you. Hell, I worked and you laid around. That's different. You're a man, I'm a woman. Oh, I didn't know that. I thought you bitches were always screaming for equal rights?

I've watched snails climb over ten foot walls and vanish.

Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.

There's nothing worse in the world than a poetry recital.

The factories, the jails, the drunken days and nights, the hospitals have weakened and shaken me like a mouse in the mouth of a hip-cat: life. - from an Aug. 1965 letter to Jim Roman On Cats

But starvation, unfortunately, didn't improve art. It only hindered it. A man's soul was rooted in his stomach

The cat is the beutiful devil. And here we can use the word, even without the "a." - from a Dec. 21 1960, a letter to Sheri Martinelli On Cats

No sabían cómo recuperarse. Venían de un barrio rico, no sabían lo que significaba luchar por recuperarse.

Kita semua akan mati, semuanya. Menakutkan bukan? Alasan itu saja seharusnya membuat kita saling mencintai, tetapi tidak. Kita diteror dan digilas oleh hal-hal yang remeh dalam hidup; ditelan oleh kehampaan.

Le donne erano destinate a soffrire; non c'era da meravigliarsi che volessero sempre grandi dichiarazioni d'amore