Charles Bukowski

"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead."

"I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready."

"To me, nudity is a joke. I don't think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully clothed. I like to imagine what might be under there. It might not be the standard thing. Imagine, stripping a woman down, and she has a body like a little submarine. With periscope, propellers, torpedoes. That would be the one for me. I'd marry her right off and be faithful to the end."

"be it peace or happinesslet it enfold you"

"Mëso të mos e shkatërrosh me fjalë atë çfarë ke ndërtuar me heshtje."

"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."

"It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well."

"there is a place in the heart thatwill never be filleda spaceand even during thebest momentsandthe greatest timestimeswe will know itwe will know itmore thaneverthere is a place in the heart thatwill never be filledandwe will waitandwaitin that space."

"Poetry is what happens when nothing else can."

"and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical senseand are not easy to fool with laughter"

"nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing."

"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."

"those who escape hellhowevernever talk aboutitand nothing muchbothers themafterthat."

"People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice."

"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence."

"what matters most is how well you walk through the fire"

"There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get outbut I'm too tough for him,I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you."

"He asked, "What makes a man a writer?""Well,"I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge."

"there is a place in the heart thatwill never be filleda spaceand even during thebest momentsandthe greatest timestimeswe will know itwe will know itmore thaneverthere is a place in the heart thatwill never be filledandwe will waitandwaitin that space."

"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing."