Charles Bukowski Quotes

the rent is a little higher herebut so far I've been able to pay itand that's a miracle toolike still maybe being sanewhile thinking of guns and sidewalksand old ladies in libraries.

of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse

from the beginning, through themiddle years and up to theend:too bad, too bad, too bad.

I think I need a drink.''Almost everybody does only they don't know it.

I went over to see Marina two or three or four times a week. I knew as long as I could see the girl I would be all right…. Soon after, I got a letter from Fay. She and the child were living in a hippie commune in New Mexico. It was a nice place, she said. Marina would be able to breathe there. She enclosed a little drawing the girl had made for me.

Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way.

I felt like a still live fish on ice in a butcher’s counter on Friday morning.- On Cats

for meobedience to another is the decay of self.for though every being is similareach being is differentand to herd our differencesunder one lawdegrades each self.