Charles Bukowski Quotes

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius - in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around.

I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.

I'm no genius.

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't mind being simple in terms of literary expression. Others say, 'No, no, no. He went to Cambridge. He got a good degree. He must be Einstein.'

Ed Norton is probably one of the smartest people I've ever met.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

I do not consider myself a literal genius.

I never said I was a genius.

My opponent has all the intellectual rigor of an amoeba.

Genius, particularly creative genius, is less about raw intelligence and more about elevated vision.

It turns out that in order to think well, knowledge helps.

Pep is highly intelligent.

My dad is one of the smartest guys I know.

People who are geniuses, once they get going, you really have to keep up.

There are a lot of men who like women with a brain.

I wish I was as smart as Jeff Bezos. He's just a large-brained space alien.