Charles Bukowski Crazy Quotes

#1. That was the trouble with being a writer, that was the main trouble - leisure time, excessive leisure time. You had to wait around for the buildup until you could write and while you were waiting you went crazy, and while you were going crazy you drank and the more you drank the crazier you got.

Charles Bukowski

#2. If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.

Manolo Blahnik

#3. To create art means
to be crazy alone
forever.

Charles Bukowski

#4. The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.

Charles Bukowski

#5. They thought that writing had
something to do with
the politics of the
thing.
they were simply not
crazy enough
in the head
to sit down to a
typer
and let the words bang
out.
they didn't want to
write
they wanted to
succeed at
writing.

Charles Bukowski

#6. Miracle I have just listened to this symphony which Mozart dashed off in one day and it had enough wild and crazy joy to last forever, whatever forever is Mozart came as close as possible to that.

Charles Bukowski

#7. I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're
just as crazy as the rest of them.

Charles Bukowski

#8. Why it's so hard to go crazy - if you're not already crazy

Charles Bukowski

#9. I paid, got up, walked
to the door, opened
it.
I heard the man
say, "that guy's
nuts."
out on the street I
walked north
feeling
curiously
honored.

Charles Bukowski

#10. I told her, "Hang tight, baby, it's a crazy world." And that, as they say, was that.

Charles Bukowski

#11. Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it.

Charles Bukowski

#12. Free open-source software, by its nature, is unlikely to feature secret back doors that lead directly to Langley, Va.

Evgeny Morozov

#13. Oh, I don't mean you're handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes - they're beautiful. They're wild, crazy, like some animal peering out of a forest on fire.

Charles Bukowski

#14. I am not, as it turns out, incapable of changing myself or my life. I am not, as it turns out, worthless. I am, in fact, one seriously badass Witch who holds in her hands the power to change the world.

Dianne Sylvan

#15. If you think they didn't go crazy
in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready.

Charles Bukowski

#16. Nothing from the ocean is meant to survive on land forever.

Sarah Glenn Marsh

#17. Then I gave up trying to please her and simply fucked her, ripping viciously. It was like murder. I didn't care; my cock had gone crazy.

Charles Bukowski

#18. I'm going, she said. I love you but you're
crazy, you're doomed.

Charles Bukowski

#19. Because you loved, you promised. You must try harder to keep that promise.

Mary Jo Putney

#20. In whose interest is it to hype up the collapse of the Internet from a DDoS attack? Why, the people who provide cyber security services, of course.

Heather Brooke

#21. She seemed a bit crazy but I kept looking at her body and I didn't care.

Charles Bukowski

#22. My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure.

Charles Bukowski

#23. All political parties, organizations, and all people should abide by the constitution and laws without any exception. They must all act in accordance with the constitution and laws. I see that as a defining feature of modern political system development.

Wen Jiabao

#24. I could stay with Mears-Starbuck for forty-seven years, I thought. I could live with a crazy girlfriend, get my left ear sliced off and maybe inherit Ferris' job when he retired.

Charles Bukowski

#25. Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

Charles Bukowski

#26. I just try to do the best job that I can, as an actor. Hopefully, that carries through. That's all I can do.

Luke Mitchell

#27. I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, "crazy." But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.

Charles Bukowski

#28. Some men are crazy," I said, moving toward the door.
"What do wou mean?"
"I mean, some men are in love with their wives.

Charles Bukowski

#29. I'd chained her up because I was angry. Everyone got angry at their partner at some point.

Cari Silverwood