If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIIf you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIDrinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.
CHARLES BUKOWSKII lie as truthfully as I can.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIShe’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
CHARLES BUKOWSKITime is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIDeath meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThere is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWe’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIReal loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIAny asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWe are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
CHARLES BUKOWSKII loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWe must bring our own light to the darkness.
CHARLES BUKOWSKII guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIA love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
CHARLES BUKOWSKILove is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI