Author of quotes: Charles Bukowski

I always started work with a feeling of imminent dismissal, which is where those relaxed manners came from, which many mistakenly took for intelligence or some kind of inner hidden power.

I remember well how dad came home in the evenings and talked about work. Every day. The conversation about work began at the door, continued over dinner, and ended in the parents’ bedroom when dad shouted: “Let’s turn off the lights!” - exactly at eight in the evening, because he needed to get enough sleep and gain strength to go to work the next day. A lot of work. Nothing but work.

In all likelihood, people are cheaper to operate than machines. And people - they don't break down like cars.

“I throw them all at once,” he said. - It turns out very funny. Some make you depressed, others, on the contrary, make you happy. And I'm waiting to see whose will take it. Such is the internal struggle.

Are they, these people, that much smarter than me? The only difference between us is money and the desire to save it.

There was really nothing to do except drink wine and make love.

Women are magical creatures. Amazing, supernatural!

I couldn't afford to live with my parents.

We're all stewing in one big vat of shit. And there is no deliverance. We're leaving the circle together.

I sat and drank and thought about suicide. But I felt a strange love for my body, for my life. Covered with welts and scars, they were still mine.

The remarkable thing is that at the peak of poverty and wealth, lunatics are often allowed to be completely free.

An eight hour work day is unbearable.

Los Angeles is a good place. Many poor people live here, and it is not difficult to get lost among them.

Money and the poor should always be kept as far apart as possible.