Charles Bukowski Quotes - Page 2

I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.

the writing of somemenis like a vast bridgethat carries youoverthe many thingsthat claw and tear.The Wine of Forever

A good writer knew when not to write. Anybody could type. Not that I was a good typist also I couldn't spell and I didn't know grammar. But I knew when not to write. It was like fucking. You had to rest the godhead now and then.

The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you’ll live ten times longer than if you have ten. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever.

beware those quick to praise for they need praise in return beware those who are quick to censor they are afraid of what they do not know beware those who seek constant crowds for they are nothing alone

Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.

in this land some of us fuck more than we die but most of us die better than we fuck

As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.

and love is a word usedtoo much andmuchtoo soon.

take a writer away from his typewriterand all you have leftisthe sicknesswhich started himtypingin thebeginning