"... I do not have time for things that have no soul."

~ Charles Bukowski #BOTD 1920

"Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?"
~ Charles Bukowski

"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence."
~ Charles Bukowski

"I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night."
~ 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."
~ Charles Bukowski

"Don't fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and a chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles. Some of them are very nice."
~ Charles Bukowski

"People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice."
~ Charles Bukowski

"If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life."
~ Charles Bukowski

"I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them."
~ Charles Bukowski

"The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them."
~ Charles Bukowski

"I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead; men without eyes, men without voices; men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions; men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideas."

"Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody."
~ Charles Bukowski

"Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot."
~ Charles Bukowski

"Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong."
~ Charles Bukowski

"The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable."
~ Charles Bukowski

"Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity"
~ Charles Bukowski

"Nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. It’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it." ~ Charles Bukowski

"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."
~ Charles Bukowski

"Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone."
~ Charles Bukowski

"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must live."
~ Charles Bukowski

"Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. Some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. Some lose both and become accepted"
~ Charles Bukowski