The 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 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 BUKOWSKIThe world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIAre you becoming what you’ve always hated?
CHARLES BUKOWSKISome lose all mind and become soul, insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual – some lose both and become accepted.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIPoetry is what happens when nothing else can.
CHARLES BUKOWSKII loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIDrinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.
CHARLES BUKOWSKII never met another man I’d rather be. And even if that’s a delusion, it’s a lucky one.
CHARLES BUKOWSKISuccess is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThe tigers have found me and I do not care.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIBeware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWithout literature, life is hell.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIMy ambition is handicapped by laziness.
CHARLES BUKOWSKII lie as truthfully as I can.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThere are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
CHARLES BUKOWSKISimplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity
CHARLES BUKOWSKI