Charles Bukowski Quotes

I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.

I've lived an easy life, the life you dream about. And at that time I thought it was normal, but it's so far from normal.

I've never really had any barrier to break I guess. I don't really have anything to rebel against. I'm quite lucky.

I can't just sit around thinking how lucky I am.

I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived.

I think that Phish has been a band, we've all had- I've had a great life growing up and everybody in my band's had a really good life, none of us have got anything to complain about at all.

'Get a Job' is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done.

Just because you're born in a privileged family and have money doesn't mean you're happy. Happiness you can't buy. Happiness is something you need to work for.

I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

For the last 12 years, I've felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. It's so a part of who I am.

I do realise and understand very well on a profound level how lucky I am and what a privileged position it is and what it's done ultimately for me, my family and my kids. But at the same time, there are moments in a man's life when you just kind of want to feel somewhat normal.

I don't think I'm really in a situation to complain, because I consider myself to be privileged to be doing what I do.

There's a huge dichotomy between people who grow up with alienation, which, for me, was invaluable, and people who grow up so completely privileged that it breeds this complacency and lack of desire to question or challenge or do anything significant. Those are the types of people who become partners at the corporate law firms.

We all get so caught up in our day-to-day lives and have so many gripes. But when you see the way others live and how they make the best of it, you'll realize how lucky you are.

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.

No matter how many frustrations come along, or how many problems arise, I never lose the feeling of how lucky I am. I'm so pleased to be doing a job that makes me laugh every day. I'm aware that it's a huge privilege.

I'm the first to admit I've had a sheltered life. I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business - be nice to everyone and all that.

I'm a lucky boy. Never wanted for anything; new tracksuit, new pair of football boots. I had a happy childhood.

I was an only child who had every advantage, every blessing, absolutely.

Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.

I'm makin' a lotta dough, everyone knows who you are, and who the hell cares whether you're typecast or not? Also, there's something wrong with complaining about being typecast in something you really enjoy doing.

Clearly, the inhabitants of stable democracies find it hard to appreciate what they have: 'You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone' isn't just a song lyric; it's an expression of something fundamental about the human brain.

I come from this bubble in life - I come from a great family and went to a nice school, and I have friends, and life is pretty rosy.