Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIDogs and angels are not very far apart.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIYou have to die a few times before you can really live.
CHARLES BUKOWSKISlavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIAn intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
CHARLES BUKOWSKII never met another man I’d rather be. And even if that’s a delusion, it’s a lucky one.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIIn my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIIt was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIPoetry is what happens when nothing else can.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIDrinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThings get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIOf course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.
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 BUKOWSKIShe’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThere is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWhat a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
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 BUKOWSKI