Charles Bukowski

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

"when I am feelinglowall i have to do iswatch my catsand mycouragereturns"

"My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.~ Falsely yours"

"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."

"When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble."

"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."

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

"Find what you love and let it kill you."

"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."

"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."

"To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art."

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

"Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way."

"When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble."

"take a writer away from his typewriterand all you have leftisthe sicknesswhich started himtypingin thebeginning"

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

"there are worse thingsthan being alonebut it often takesdecades to realize thisand most often when you doit's too lateand there's nothing worsethan too late"

"Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them."

"We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain."

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