Born: 1920-08-16
Profession: Author
Nation: American
Biography of 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.
Tags: Between, Democracy, TimeAn intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
Tags: Artist, Hard, SimpleIf you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
Tags: Friends, Jail, YourselfIf you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
Tags: Lose, Losing, SoulShow 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.
Tags: Alone, Show, SpiritualThere will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.
Tags: Lives, Ready, TakenWe have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
Tags: History, Men, WastedYou begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Tags: Politics, Romantic, TimeI would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
Tags: Alone, Life, Wife