Quotes by Charles Bukowski

“I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.”

“Show 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.”

“To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.”

“Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.”

“We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.”

“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”

“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.”

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