I lie as truthfully as I can.
CHARLES BUKOWSKII lie as truthfully as I can.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIOnly the boring get bored.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWhat a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThe crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
CHARLES BUKOWSKII wanted the whole world or nothing.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIBoring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThe problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
CHARLES BUKOWSKILove is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
CHARLES BUKOWSKII stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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 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 BUKOWSKIPoetry is what happens when nothing else can.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWe don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIOf course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThe less I needed, the better I felt.
CHARLES BUKOWSKISlavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI