Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
– Charles Bukowski
I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
– Charles Bukowski
It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.
– Charles Bukowski
Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.
– Charles Bukowski
Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.
– Charles Bukowski
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
– Charles Bukowski
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
– Charles Bukowski
We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
– Charles Bukowski
To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.
– Charles Bukowski
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
– Charles Bukowski
Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.