More quotes by Charles Bukowski

"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."
"Some lose all mind and become soul,insane.some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.some lose both and become accepted"
"those who escape hellhowevernever talk aboutitand nothing muchbothers themafterthat."
"unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it"