Charles Bukowski Quotes

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
Charles Bukowski
The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you’ll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It’s truly ridiculous.
Charles Bukowski
Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.
Charles Bukowski
Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ag

Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.
Charles Bukowski
Never get out of bed before noon.
Charles Bukowski
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Charles Bukowski
Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
Charles Bukowski
I am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter.
Charles Bukowski
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 Bukowski
If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.
Charles Bukowski
We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men’s crapper of the local bar.
Charles Bukowski
I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
Charles Bukowski
You have to die a few times before you can really live.
Charles Bukowski