Hüte Dich vor dem Durchschnittsmann, vor der Durchschnittsfrau. Hüte Dich vor ihrer Liebe. Ihre Liebe ist Durchschnitt, sucht Durchschnitt. Aber da ist Genialität in ihrem Hass. Und ihr Hass wird vollkommen sein; ihre schönste Kunst.

— Charles Bukowski

You're breast men? I don't understand you. Legs are the only thing.

— Charles Bukowski

We are simply a part of the machinery of the moment.

— Charles Bukowski

Nobody can save you but yourself. You will be put again and again into nearly impossible situations. They will attempt again and again to make you submit, quit and/or die quietly inside and it will be easy enough to fail but don't, don't, don't. Just watch them. Listen to them. Do you want to be like that? A faceless, mindless, heartless being? Do you want to experience death before death? Nobody can save you but yourself and you're worth saving. It's a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it. Think about it. Think about saving yourself.

— Charles Bukowski

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