Quotes from Charles Bukowski

Sometimes there's luck, When there is you stock up on it and wait for the other times

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies... not the death of his love but the shoelace that snaps with no time left.

I've never met another man I'd rather be.

Style means no shield at all. Style means no front at all. Style means ultimate naturalness. Style means one man alone with billions of men about.

I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.

Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist.

you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old.

No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less.

Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.

I am for the small man who has not forgotten, for the man who loves his beer and his women and his sunlight

It's nice enough to make a man weep, but I don't weep, do you?

I am a dolt of a man, easily made happy or even stupidly happy almost without cause and left alone I am mostly content.

Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.

I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a coffee cup in a park for old men playing chess or silly games of some sort.

People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel hate or love.

Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.

I was given the job of milking the cows, finally, and it got me up earlier than anybody. But it was kind of nice, pulling at those cows' tits.

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and eight times out of nine I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.

Shakespeare a plagiarist Beethoven with a horn stuck into his head against deafness the impossibility the impossibility Nietzsche gone totally mad the impossibility of being human all too human this breathing in and out out and in these punks these cowards these champions these mad dogs of glory moving this little bit of light toward us impossibly.