Quotes from Charles Bukowski

Only assholes talk about writing

you didn't adjust, you simply got more and more tired

I've always said if you want to find out who your friends are go to a madhouse or jail. and if you want to find out where love is not be a perpetual loser.

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.

I saw her walk in out of the corner of my eye. Why do they say "corner of the eye"? Eyes have no corners.

It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took. On

two hollow emptinesses looking into each other

Wise son of a bitch, you're one of those sons of bitches with a vocabulary and you like to lay it around!

The back was something the assholes had never figured out how to amputate.

La vida podía ser buena en ocasiones, pero a veces eso dependía en parte de nosotros.

I think that when a woman has kept her legs closed for 35 years it's too late either for love or for poetry.

Nobody knew how good I was, nobody knew what I could do. I was some kind of miracle. The sun tossed yellow everywhere and I cut through it, a crazy knife on wheels. My father was a beggar in the streets of India but all the women in the world loved me...

THE WORLD IS FULL OF BILLIONS OF ASSHOLES. THE PRESIDENT HAS AN ASSHOLE, THE CARWASH BOY HAS AN ASSHOLE, THE JUDGE AND THE MURDERER HAVE ASSHOLES … EVEN PURPLE STICKPIN HAS AN ASSHOLE!

What do I think is important? Good wine, good plumbing and to be able to sleep late in the mornings.

Privately now, I would like to comment to you on the Noble Bitch in Trace 32. Why this eltchl, this conservative from the halls of the ikons and holy rollers, the pluckers of rondeaux and smellers of lilies, why this spalpeen should set himself up as a special critic of literary know-how is more than I can dispense with with a quodlibet. I need a stronger antiseptic.

Em termos monetários, parecia mais do que certo que era melhor ter uma buceta do que um caralho.

I checked two ads, went to two places and both of the places hired me. The first place smelled like work, so I took the second.

Amo i solitari, i diversi, quelli che non incontri mai. Quelli persi, andati, spiritati, fottuti. Quelli con l'anima in fiamme.

Find what you love and let it kill you

No estoy metido en ninguna competición con nadie, ni pienso en la inmortalidad; me importa un carajo todo eso. Es la ACCIÓN mientras estás vivo.

Ä°nsanlar?n yan?nda mutlu deÄŸilim, yeterince içersem kayboluyorlar.

La gloria está en el movimiento y en la osadía. Al carajo con la muerte. Es hoy y es hoy y es hoy. Sí.

Oyleyse okur,catlak Jimmy`i bir an icin birakip Arthur`a gecelim -ki hic sorun degil- yazma tarzimi kastediyorum burada : sa[a sola sicarim ve siz de hic zorlanmadan benimle gelirsiniz. Hic onemi yoktur,gorursunuz.

and now sometimes I'm interviewed, they want to hear about life and literature and I get drunk and hold up my cross-eyed shot runover de-tailed cat before them and I say, "look, look at this!