You have to die a few times before you can really live.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIYou have to die a few times before you can really live.
CHARLES BUKOWSKII am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIYou can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
CHARLES BUKOWSKICan you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThat’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThere are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIPoetry is what happens when nothing else can.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIDogs and angels are not very far apart.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIPeople are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWhat matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIAre you becoming what you’ve always hated?
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThings get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.
CHARLES BUKOWSKISex is kicking death in the ass while singing.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIAnything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom – love – happiness.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIBeware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThere is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI