Charles Bukowski

Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.

Charles Bukowski

Anybody can be a non-drunk. It takes a special talent to be a drunk. It takes endurance. Endurance is more important than truth.

Charles Bukowski

Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, now I am going to write a poem.

Charles Bukowski

Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.

Charles Bukowski

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

Charles Bukowski

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Charles Bukowski

Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself.

Charles Bukowski

Death is not the problem; waiting around for it is.

Charles Bukowski

Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.

Charles Bukowski

Do some living and get yourself a typewriter.

Charles Bukowski