Charles Bukowski

We are hardly ever as strong as that which we create.

Charles Bukowski

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

Charles Bukowski

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

Charles Bukowski

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go.

Charles Bukowski

A dry period for me means perhaps going two or three nights without writing. I probably have dry periods but I’m not aware of them and I go on writing, only the writing probably isn’t much good.

Charles Bukowski

A spark can set a whole forest on fire. Just a spark. Save it.

Charles Bukowski

A woman is a full time job. You have to choose your profession.

Charles Bukowski

Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth – alongside of me.

Charles Bukowski

All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn’t.

Charles Bukowski

Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that’s why we get along.

Charles Bukowski