Quotes from Charles Bukowski

Jos et keksi mitä tekisit, niin ole kiltisti. (Auringonvalo, tässä olen, s. 217)

the people will always betray you. never trust the people.

We went up the Harbor freeway north and then we cut onto the San Diego freeway north. I hated the San Diego freeway. It always jammed. Then I noticed a slight rain beginning to fall. That's it, I said, it's beginning to rain. All the cars were going to stop. California drivers didn't know how to drive in the rain.

There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking.

Think of being 80 and fucking a 18 yeard old girl. If there was any way to cheat the game of death, that was it.

Sometimes I thought about my liver but my liver never spoke up, it never said, "Stop it, you're killing me and I'm going to kill you!" If we had talking livers we wouldn't need A.A.

Orosopular? ve çingeneleri severim: Birisi namuslu numaras? yapmaz DiÄŸeri milliyetçilik aya??na yatmaz

I'm just an alcoholic who became a writer so that I would be able to stay in bed until noon.

SIR! SIR! SIR! FORGET THAT 'SIR' STUFF, WILL YOU? I'll bet if that were the president or governor or mayor or some rich son of a bitch, there would be doctors all over that room doing something! Why do you just let them die? What's the sin in being poor?

It wasn't ENOUGH that I was working beside him like an idiot; it wasn't enough for him that I was wasting the few good hours left in my life—no, he also wanted me to share his own mind-soul, to sniff his dirty stockings, to chew on his angers and hates with him. I was not PAID for that, the fucker. And that's what killed you on the job—not the actual physical work but being closed in with the dead. I

there's music in everything, even defeat—but

King Mongut had 9,000 wives. Think of it: 365 days a year divided into 9,000. No arguments. No menstrual periods. No psychic overload. Just feast and feast and feast. It must have been very hard for King Mongut to die, or very easy. There could not have been an in-between.

I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about. I

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

If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.

cities are built to kill people

The thought has occurred to millions of men, while shaving; the removal of life might be preferred to, the removal of hair.

Vaya sorpresa que te vas a llevar, amigo... ¡cuando descubras que nosotros los viejos retrógrados queremos también un mundo mejor! ¡sólo que no somos partidarios de QUEMAR la casa para librarnos de las termitas!

Hay veces que un hombre tiene que luchar tanto por la vida que ni tiempo tiene de vivirla.

you son of a bitch, she said, I am trying to build a meaningful relationship. you can't build it with a hammer, he said.

My laughter was all there inside of me waiting to roar out: HAHAHAHAHA, o my god o my HAHAHAHA. It felt so good when it happened. Dee Dee knew something about life. Dee Dee knew that what happened to one happened to most of us. Our lives were not so different—even though we liked to think so.

When I see a man with a tidy place I know there's something wrong with him. And if it's too tidy, he's a fag.

agony can kill or agony can sustain life but peace is always horrifying

rakkaus kuivahtaa jopa spermaa nopeammin