More quotes by Charles Bukowski

"my mother, poor fish,wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!why don't you ever smile?"and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was thesaddest smile I ever saw"
"unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it"
"Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it."
"To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art."
"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence."