Quotes from Charles Bukowski

Love breaks my bone and I Laugh.

These words I write keep me from total madness.

I have a special ring-system that must work before I will pick up my phone. I am not a snob: it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do-mostly with my time.

I guess lesbianism wasn't so rampant in those days, they would've gotten a bunk with each other and just left me alone, you know. Which would have been just as well, you know..

La monotonia, un lavoro fisso che non portava a niente, anime che cercavano altre anime per sfuggire ad imbarazzanti silenzi ed una città senza stimoli che cercava di camuffare la noia dietro falsi sorrisi, musica assordante e belle gambe inavvicinabili. Niente di buono. Ma era incredibile come la gente riusciva ad adattarsi

You don't have to go to the movies to see a horror show.

You couldn't underestimate them and you couldn't kiss their ass. There was a certain middle ground to be achieved.

Then he spoke. "I just want to find out. I just want to find out for myself." "I don't come cheap." "How much?" "6 bucks an hour." "That doesn't seem like much money." "Does to me. You got a photo of your wife?

now it's computers and more computers and soon everybody will have one, 3-year-olds will have computers and everybody will know everything about everybody else long before they meet them. nobody will want to meet anybody else ever again and everybody will be a recluse like I am now

amor es lo que pasa un año de cada diez

sometimes there is a dark cloud that never passes. It stays forever!" "Well, that's death.

I believe that whatever is necessary is necessary, it is up to you. unfortunately or fortunately I feel my power more and more each passing day, each passing year, of course, there are minor lulls wherein I sincerely think of murdering myself and come very close, especially with hangover. however, this is probably common with most of us.—oh, it was BRAHMS!—damn, I didn't know he wrote such lousy piano stuff.

What I mean by big was that her ass was big and her tits were big and that she was big in all the right places. She seemed a bit crazy but I kept looking at her body and I didn't care.

SCREW YOU GUYS! I'M A GENIUS!

I'm one of those who doesn't think there is much difference between an atomic scientist and a man who cleans the seats except for the luck of the draw--parents with enough money to point you safely toward a more generous life.

And when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. What do you call it, freedom or loneliness

I felt better being alone.

Dentro y solo de nuevo, y la locura de la noche la locura del día.

Poezia spune prea multe într-un timp prea scurt; proza spune prea puÅ£in ÅŸi dureaz? prea mult.

baby, air and light and time and space have nothing to do with it and don't create anything except maybe a longer life to find new excuses for.

L'amore è una forma di pregiudizio. Si ama quello di cui si ha bisogno, quello che ci fa star bene, quello che ci fa comodo. Come fai a dire che ami una persona, quando al mondo ci sono migliaia di persone che potresti amare di più, se solo le incontrassi? Il fatto è che non le incontri.

Existem bilhões de pessoas no mundo que não atingem o sucesso pela criação. Quer me dizer que elas estão mortas? – Sim. – E você tem uma alma? Você é um dos poucos que tem uma alma? – Diria que sim.

I sat down and found half a dead cigar in the ashtray. I lit it up, took a drag, gagged. Tried it again. Not too bad.

I don't deserve what you have and I want to keep it that way.