Charles Bukowski

Don’t fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and a chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles. Some of them are very nice.

Charles Bukowski

Don’t wait for the good woman. She doesn’t exist. There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd.

Charles Bukowski

Drink from the well of yourself and begin again.

Charles Bukowski

Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.

Charles Bukowski

Each man’s hell is in a different place: mine is just up and behind my ruined face.

Charles Bukowski

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

Charles Bukowski

Generally, a writer of force is anywhere from 20 years to 200 years ahead of his generation.

Charles Bukowski

Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.

Charles Bukowski

Human relationships are strange. I mean, you are with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stops.

Charles Bukowski

Humanity, you never had it from the beginning.’ That was my motto.

Charles Bukowski