Bukowski Quotes

Are there good governments and bad governments? No, there are only bad governments and worse governments.

that your power of commandwith simple language wasone of the magnificent things ofour century.(from the poem: result)

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.

having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor.

We’ve all heard that little woman who says, “Oh, it’s terrible what these young people do to themselves, in my lsi other drugs, is a terrible thing”.Then you look, the woman who speaks in this way: you have no eyes, no teeth, no brains, no soul, no ass, no mouth, no warmth, no spirit, nothing, just a stick… and avran made ​​you wonder how to reduce it in that state teas and pastries and the church.

as the shadows assumeshapesI fight the slowretreatnowmy once-promisedwindlingdwindlingnowlighting new cigarettespouring moredrinksit has been a beautifulfightstillis.

it does seemthe more we drinkthe better the wordsgo.

Like anybody can tell you, I am not a very nice man. I don't know the word. I have always admired the villain, the outlaw, the son of a bitch. I don't like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions. I also like vile women, drunk cursing bitches with loose stockings and sloppy mascara faces. I'm more interested in perverts than saints. I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.

And it seems people should not build houses anymoreit seems people should stop working and sit in small rooms on second floorsunder electric lightswithout shades;it seems there is a lot to forgetand a lot not to doand in drugstores, markets, bars,the people are tired, they do not want to move, and I stand there at nightand look through this house and the house does not want to be built

and love is a word usedtoo much andmuchtoo soon.

I feel no grief for being called somethingwhichI am not;in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a goodback rub

one doesn't even think ofthe liverand if the liverdoesn't think ofus, that'sfine.

the first place smelled like work, so I took the second