Quotes by Charles Bukowski (Page 4 of 4)

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

The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.

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

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

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

Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.

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.

Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.

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

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

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.

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.