39 quotes
I've never met another man I'd rather be.
Bukowski: Born Into This (2002)
But most men, fortunately, aren't writers, or even cab drivers, and some men - many men - unfortunately aren't anything.
Factotum (1975)
Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer.
Factotum (1975)
For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter. The old story of good and evil.
Factotum (1975)
My ambition is handicapped by my laziness.
Factotum (1975)
"People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be."
Factotum (1975)
Nothing is worse than to finish a good shit, then reach over and find the toilet paper container empty. Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass.
Factotum (1975)
That was all a man needed: hope. It was a lack of hope that discouraged a man.
Factotum (1975)
When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.
Factotum (1975)
There ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved.
Factotum (1975)
It's not that I hate people, I just feel better when they're not around.
Barfly (1987)
It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning.
Rooming House Madrigals (1954)
"Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working."
We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors have taken over the Ship (1998)
People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel hate or love.
Women (1978)
"I'm no preacher but I can tell you this-the lives that people lead are driving them crazy and their insanity comes out in the way they drive."
Factotum (1975)
Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.
Women (1978)
The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
Tales of ordinary madness (1967)
No shortcuts, with me as with life.
Sofie’s BS (1997)
I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it.
Factotum (1975)