More quotes by Charles Bukowski

"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."
"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose"
"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."
"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."