Author: Charles Bukowski

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I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

- Charles Bukowski

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.

- Charles Bukowski

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

- Charles Bukowski

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.

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.

- Charles Bukowski

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

- Charles Bukowski

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

- Charles Bukowski

It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

- Charles Bukowski

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.

- Charles Bukowski

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