Quotes About Charles Bukowski

I've got to get back to the typewriter, I thought. Art takes discipline. Any asshole can chase a skirt. I drank, thinking about it. At

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

that they could imagine that I'd want to converse with them at 7 a.m. is an insult to whatever intelligent life is left in our dwindling universe.

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!

in the sun and in the rain and in the day and in the night pain is a flower pain is flowers blooming all the time.

I got drunker and stayed drunker than a shit skunk in Purgatory.

Che razza di investigatore sei? fece lui. Il migliore di L.A. Ah sì? E che cosa vuol dire L.A.? Leccatori d'Ano.

?itate Celinea? upotao je ženski glas. Zvu?io je seksi. U zadnje sam vrijeme bio nešto sam. I tako desetlje?ima.

You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody.

couldn't understand what was wrong with her or why she did it why she needed whiskey. there was nothing in my life as ugly as she was. now I have been drunk for 40 years and I hear all the voices of those I have known as one voice: "you just aren't yourself when you get drunk, you are one of the meanest drunks I have ever seen, you are disgusting…" well, I don't ask them to hang around and they don't.

The public takes from a writer, or a writing, what it needs and lets the remainder go. but what they take is usually what they need least and what they let go is what they need most.

Bobby handed me a Columbian and I took a hit.