Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIBaby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
CHARLES BUKOWSKILove is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWhat a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
CHARLES BUKOWSKII guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIAn intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
CHARLES BUKOWSKISome lose all mind and become soul, insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual – some lose both and become accepted.
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 BUKOWSKII lie as truthfully as I can.
CHARLES BUKOWSKINobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIDrinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIIn my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThe crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
CHARLES BUKOWSKII remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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 BUKOWSKIAre you becoming what you’ve always hated?
CHARLES BUKOWSKITime is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI