"Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink." - Charles Bukowski

what matters most is how well you walk through the fire

"Manny, what are you doing working in auto parts?" "Resting. My ambition is handicapped by laziness."

I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower, I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time.

"A man does not get old because he nears death; a man gets old because he can no longer see the false from the good." - Charles Bukowski

Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.- Charles Bukowski

"I think that the bed is Man's greatest invention—most of us are born there, die there, fuck here, jack-off there, dream there." - Bukowski

people so tired mutilated either by love or no love

"I write to save my own ass, to shove the grip of madness away from me with words." - Charles Bukowski

The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life away to a function that doesn't interest you.

"I got a bottle of wine and went back to my room with it and sat in bed with it and drank it in the dark." - Charles Bukowski

"Sex is only a great thing if you're not getting any.” - Charles Bukowski

"I feast on solitude, I will never miss the crowd. I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me." - Charles Bukowski

“Finally there is nothing here for death to take away.”

"Amazing how grimly we hold on to our misery, the energy we burn fueling our anger . . ." - Charles Bukowski

"to sit in a small room and drink a can of beer and roll a cigarette ... is to have come back from a dozen wars alive" - Charles Bukowski

"I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance." - Charles Bukowski

Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working. Out here we call it 'hustling'.

"How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them?" - Buk

“It's like a movie, I thought, like a fucking movie. It seemed funny to me. It felt as if we were on camera. I liked it."