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.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

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

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

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

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.

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.