This incompleteness is all we have.

Charles Bukowski

People empty me. I have to get away to refill.

Charles Bukowski

Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.

Charles Bukowski

Wherever the crowd goes, run in the other direction. They're always wrong.

Charles Bukowski

What matters most is how well you walk in the fire.

Charles Bukowski

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it's your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.

Charles Bukowski

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.

Charles Bukowski

You know the typical crowd, "Wow, it’s Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?" Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have.

Charles Bukowski

The way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths, that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart.

Charles Bukowski

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

Charles Bukowski


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