You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIYou begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThe crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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 BUKOWSKIMy beer drunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
CHARLES BUKOWSKII stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
CHARLES BUKOWSKISometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside – remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWe don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIAlmost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
CHARLES BUKOWSKISex is kicking death in the ass while singing.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThe 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 BUKOWSKIPoetry is what happens when nothing else can.
CHARLES BUKOWSKISome people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIMy ambition is handicapped by laziness.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIAny asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIIt wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
CHARLES BUKOWSKII lie as truthfully as I can.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI