If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.

- Charles Bukowski

the history of melancholia includes all of us.

- Charles Bukowski

nobody ever finds the one

- Charles Bukowski

It’s so easy to be easy—if you let it.

- Charles Bukowski

I'm only interested in poetry.

- Charles Bukowski

Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong.

- Charles Bukowski

Don’t do it. Don’t love me.

- 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

I hope that death contains less than this.

- Charles Bukowski