We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the mens crapper of the local bar. – Charles Bukowski
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. – Charles Bukowski
To do a dull thing with style-now thats what I call art. – Charles Bukowski
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 Ill show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities. – Charles Bukowski
It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. We can recover self-confidence by snubbing the dead. – E.M. Forster, Abinger Harvest