Charles Bukowski
“Something else is hurting you - that’s why you need pot or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can’t think.”
- Charles Bukowski
Advice from Bukowski
- Interviewer: “What is your advice to young writers?”
- Charles Bukowski: “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.”
- Interviewer: “What is your advice to older writers?”
- Charles Bukowski: “If you're still alive, you don't need any advice.”
Somewhere else, someplace good
“The hangover was brutal but he didn't mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, someplace good.”
– Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski on work
“How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?”
- Charles Bukowski
Being unpleasant
"There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do."
- Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski on his drinking
"I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge quantities. I could feel them wondering why I wasn't dead yet and it made me uncomfortable. They probably weren't thinking any such thing, but then a man gets paranoid when he has 300 hangovers a year."
- Charles Bukowski

















