My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIMy ambition is handicapped by laziness.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIKnowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIPeople run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
CHARLES BUKOWSKISimplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity
CHARLES BUKOWSKIBoring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIBeauty 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 BUKOWSKILove is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThe crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIReal loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
CHARLES BUKOWSKII stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
CHARLES BUKOWSKITo do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWe are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting.
CHARLES BUKOWSKISuccess is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIAny asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
CHARLES BUKOWSKII never met another man I’d rather be. And even if that’s a delusion, it’s a lucky one.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIIn the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI