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

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