We don't even ask for happiness, just a little less pain.

— Charles Bukowski

It was one of those times where nothing was lost, because nothing had ever been found.

— Charles Bukowski

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.

— Charles Bukowski

I still believe in more privacy and less talk.

— Charles Bukowski

Understand me. I'm not like an ordinary world. [...] and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

— Charles Bukowski

What I needed seemed to be absent everywhere.

— Charles Bukowski

[…] keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. There is no other way. And there never was.

— Charles Bukowski

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it — basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

— Charles Bukowski