Quotes from Charles Bukowski

no te precipites. si existe la luz ella misma dará contigo.

When you marry the woman you also marry her entire family.

grinning from asshole to eyebrow.

he had outwitted me: praise was the only thing I couldn't handle

Some people don't like anybody who is famous. Some people don't like anybody who isn't.

You learn about death by dying not by looking at it.

It's a lonely time, she sings, and you're not mine and it makes me feel so bad, this thing of being me...

fun and danger hardly put margarine on the toast or fed the cat. You give up toast and end up eating the cat.

Me resulta difícil encontrar un héroe a estas alturas, así que tengo que crear mi propio héroe: yo mismo.

I would like to be human if only they would let me.

Well, I asked him. I said, 'Master, what can I do to make my work better?'" "No shit?" "No shit." "What'd he say?" "He said, 'I can't tell you anything about your work. You must do it all by yourself.'" "Ha.

well, I've been bombed out of better places than this

My mother was reading the note. Soon I heard her crying. Then she was wailing. "Oh, my god! You've disgraced your father and myself! It's a disgrace! Suppose the neighbors find out? What will the neighbors think?" They never spoke to their neighbors.

I feel like an old man. hell, I am an old man.

then came the manual typewriter. then the electric typer. and now this. it's as if I have been reborn.

To think, somebody had suicided for that.

Mi sono sempre piaciute le gambe. E' stata la prima cosa che ho visto quando sono nato. Ma allora stavo cercando di uscire. Da quel momento in poi ho sempre tentato di andare nell'altra direzione, ma con fortuna piuttosto scarsa.

the trouble with the famous is that they must be replaced and they can never quite be replaced, and that gives us this unique sadness.

and each temporary escape has a permanent price. neither drink nor love will see you through.

My father didn't like people. He didn't like me. "Children should be seen and not heard," he told me.

Style is the difference, a way of doing, a way of being done.

people are strange: they are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice…

what was the difference between a movie critic and the average movie-goer? Answer: the critic didn't have to pay.

The big moment came. I sat the typewriter down on the desk and I put a piece of paper in there and I hit the keys. The typewriter still worked. And there was plenty of room for an ashtray, the radio and the bottle. Don't let anybody tell you different. Life begins at 65.