Quotes By Charles Bukowski

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

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

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

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

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

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.

It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

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.

Never get out of bed before noon.

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

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

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.