Charles Bukowski

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence. ”

When I say that basically writing is a hard hustle, I don't mean that it is a bad life, if one can get away with it. It's the miracle of miracles to make a living by the typer. ”

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth. ”

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live. ”

When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It's when you're mad with it, it's when it's stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It's when there's no hope but that. ”

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. ”

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity. ”

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system. ”

I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don't like their feet, I don't like their conversations, I don't like their hairdos, I don't like their automobiles. ”

Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful. ”