Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski
Henry Charles Bukowskiwas an American poet, novelist, and short story writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth16 August 1920
CityAndernach, Germany
CountryUnited States of America
essence mad people
This is very important -- to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for great periods, you're gonna lose everything...just to do nothing at all, very, very important. And how many people do this in modern society? Very few. That's why they're all totally mad, frustrated, angry and hateful.
drunk enough obvious
Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself.
bored boring
Only the boring get bored
laughing bones break
Love breaks my bones and I laugh
nerves spirit desperation
Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.
men winning hands
Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the other hand it is mathematically possible that he might win whatever you bring with you. What you must do, with money and the poor, is never let them get too close to one another.
sex tasks sometimes
Sex can sometimes become the most horrible of tasks.
betrayal damnation female
The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.
women
A woman has to have something on or there's nothing to take off.
hell things-to-do ifs
The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
lonely self pity
I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.
art discipline skirts
Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
victory defeat small-victories
I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.
running art way
the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart