Charles Bukowski Quotes
"Never get out of bed before noon."
- Charles Bukowski
(Related: Bed)
"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."
- Charles Bukowski
(Related: Genius, Ability)
"Humanity, you never had it to begin with."
- Charles Bukowski
(Related: Humanity)
"I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there."
- Charles Bukowski
(Related: Wrong)
"I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life."
- Charles Bukowski
(Related: Life, Wife)
"If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence."
- Charles Bukowski
(Related: Friends, Want)
"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose."
- Charles Bukowski
(Related: Soul, Losing)
"Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style."
- Charles Bukowski
(Related: Style)
"Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste."
- Charles Bukowski
(Related: Taste)
"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."
- Charles Bukowski
(Related: Kitchen, Man, Spiritual)
"Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live."
- Charles Bukowski
(Related: People)
"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."
- Charles Bukowski
(Related: Time, Democracy, Dictatorship, Difference, First, Vote, Voting, Waste)
"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."
- Charles Bukowski
(Related: First, Ruin, Will)
"To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art."
- Charles Bukowski
(Related: Art, Style)
"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."
- Charles Bukowski
(Related: Politics, Time, Man, World)
"It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well."
- Charles Bukowski
(Related: Love, Being)
"We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar."
- Charles Bukowski
(Related: History, Men)