Charles Bukowski

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

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

"She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire."

"Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone."

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

"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."

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

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

"Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it."

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

"Poetry is what happens when nothing else can."

"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"

"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"

"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."

"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"

"be it peace or happinesslet it enfold you"

"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"

"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."

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