Quotes by Charles Bukowski

• An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
• Never get out of bed before noon.
• Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
• Humanity, you never had it to begin with.
• I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
• I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
• If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
• If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
• Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.
• Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
• Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
• The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
• There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.
• To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.
• You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
• It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.
• We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
• Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron bars of fear.
• The only way to make sense out of anything is to plunge into it and live in it with intensity.
• Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom—preferably with a little confetti to celebrate the fall!