I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

Quote by Charles Bukowski

Topics: Charles Bukowski Quotes

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is...

You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is...

Never get out of bed before noon.

Never get out of bed before noon.

Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important...

Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important...

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8...

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8...

To do a dull thing with style-now THAT'S what I call art.

To do a dull thing with style-now THAT'S what I call art.

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror...

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror...

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or...

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or...

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard...

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard...

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's...

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's...

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul...

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul...

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote...

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote...

It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.

Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is...

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is...