More quotes by Charles Bukowski

"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."
"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."
"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose"
"take a writer away from his typewriterand all you have leftisthe sicknesswhich started himtypingin thebeginning"
"Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone."