Charles Bukowski

There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.

Charles Bukowski

There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.

Charles Bukowski

There is always somebody about to ruin your day, if not your life.

Charles Bukowski

They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work.

Charles Bukowski

To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you’re frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.

Charles Bukowski

Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn’t so.

Charles Bukowski

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Charles Bukowski

When everything works best, it’s not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It’s when you’re mad with it, it’s when it’s stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It’s when there’s no hope but that.

Charles Bukowski

When I am feeling low all I have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns

Charles Bukowski

When I say that basically writing is a hard hustle, I don’t mean that it is a bad life, if one can get away with it. It’s the miracle of miracles to make a living by the typer.

Charles Bukowski