Charles Bukowski Quotes

I just talk a lot, that's the problem.

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.

You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle!

… talks too much.

He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.

You remind me of Hubert Humphrey. You talk too much

For me Wagner is impossible... he talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time.

Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.

Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.

Some people don't know when to stop talking.

Chatterers are a menace.

I don't quite know why, but I am long-winded.

I talk a lot, and that is probably exhausting.

The word 'ranting' is kind of overused now. Literally, if you just talk about a subject for 30 seconds or more, even if you never raised your voice, if I just talk about it, it's called a rant.

You ever get that feeling that you just have too many hits?

I was really talkative as a child. The priest used to pray for me not to talk so much because I was distracting the other kids.

I think that people in Mexico talk too much.

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.

Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.

Who talks much, must talk in vain.

There is simply too much to think about.

It was fun to talk too much [as Jebediah Woodley], to keep running your mouth whether the other characters want to hear it or not. That's part of what made this guy fun.

I have such a crowded life and crowded schedule. When people send me a link with a gadget, I'll look at it and buy it if it looks interesting, but I don't have time to check out everything I'd like to.