Charles Bukowski quotes

“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.”

— Charles Bukowski

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.”

— Charles Bukowski

“The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.”

— Charles Bukowski

“If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.”

— Charles Bukowski

“It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.”

— Charles Bukowski

“There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.”

— Charles Bukowski

“I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.”

— Charles Bukowski

“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”

— Charles Bukowski

“We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.”

— Charles Bukowski

“To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Never get out of bed before noon.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Humanity, you never had it to begin with.”

— Charles Bukowski

“I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.”

— Charles Bukowski