Charles Bukowski Quotes

“I didn't want to be anything anyhow. And I was certainly succeeding.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

topic:success ambition

“What you must do, with money and the poor, is never let them get too close to one another.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

topic:poverty money

“They experimented on the poor and if that worked they used the treatment on the rich. And if it didn't work, there would still be more poor left over to experiment upon.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

topic:poverty

“So, that's what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That's what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

topic:foolishness need lie

“You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

topic:foolishness suffering

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”

― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

topic:desire want ambition

“I don't trust men with limp handshakes.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

topic:trust

“It seemed better to delay thinking...”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“But starvation, unfortunately, didn't improve art. It only hindered it.”

― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

topic:art difficulty

“Everything was eternally dreary, dismal, damned. Even the weather was insolent and bitchy.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

topic:sadness

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