Charles Bukowski Quotes

“You'll never be a writer if you hide from reality.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

topic:hiding reality writing

“People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.”

― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

topic:love success need

“She hiked her skirt higher. It was like the beginning of life and laughter, it was the real meaning of the sun.”

― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

topic:life sun

“They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

topic:life meaning

“I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

topic:truth religion foolishness

“Wealth meant victory and victory was the only reality. What woman chooses to live with a dishwasher?”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

topic:women wealth

“A woman is a full-time job. You have to choose your profession.”

― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

topic:women work

“I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

topic:self

“Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become obvious yourself.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

topic:self

“I had always been good company for myself.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

topic:self loneliness

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