Charles Bukowski Quotes

Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts.

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

We derive our vitality from our store of madness.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

There's not many people that can handle my sheer madness.

I'm a bit crazy, yes.

Only the half-mad are wholly alive.

Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself is full of craziness and at bottom utterly illogical. Man strives toward reason only so that he can make rules for himself.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms.

We're all crazy. What's your specific form of crazy?

I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself

I'm the last of the mad ones.

the mad have a grace all their own

Eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

All of us are crazy in one or another way.

I don't want to go with the smooth skin and the calm brow. I hope I end up a blithering idiot cursing the sun - hallucinating, screaming, giving obscene and inane lectures on street corners and public parks.

I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.

There is a fine line between insanity and genius.

Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.

Charm is the true gift of the Fairies.

But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.

To be alive is a fine thing. It is the finest thing in the world, though hazardous. It is a unique thing. It happens only once in a lifetime. To be alive, to know consciously that you are alive, and to relish that knowledge -- this is a kind of magic. Or it may be a kind of madness, exhilarating but harmless.