Anything 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 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 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 BUKOWSKIReal loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIAnimals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that’s why we get along.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIGreat art is horseshit, buy tacos.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIMy beer drunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIAre you becoming what you’ve always hated?
CHARLES BUKOWSKIIf you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.
CHARLES BUKOWSKITime is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
CHARLES BUKOWSKISex is kicking death in the ass while singing.
CHARLES BUKOWSKII stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIIf you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
CHARLES BUKOWSKITo do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWe don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThe tired sunsets and the tired people – it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThat’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI