Charles Bukowski Quotes

Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.

Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.

America is in a state of somnolence. It's an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality.

Ignorance is a matter of laziness, indifference, and apathy.

One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm.

When you're comfortable, you're not necessarily inclined to care about things that are contributing to your comfort. It's difficult.

The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.

Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.

The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.

Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal.

I'm into eating as little as possible, paying as little attention as possible. I never cook. Never use the stove or anything.

It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

I don't have the fire in the belly right now. It's one of those been there, done that deals.

Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let life be what it likes. Give me a drink, that's what I want just now.

There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.

The trouble with the world is that laziness is seldom curable and never fatal.

I've goofed, and there's been something interesting, but I haven't made use of it. It just doesn't interest me.

I'm actually equal parts cynicism and apathy. I'm always willing to believe the worst as long as it doesn't take too much effort.

"Then idiots talk," said Eugene, leaning back, folding his arms, smoking with his eyes shut, and speaking slightly through his nose, "of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy."

I do not care for anything. I do not care to ride, for the exercise is too violent. I do not care to walk, walking is too strenuous. I do not care to lie down, for I should either have to remain lying, and I do not care to do that, or I should have to get up again, and I do not care to do that either. Summa summarum: I do not care at all.

That's human nature. Nobody does anything until it's too late.

So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.

What's a punk band? Hey, who's got a beer?

I'm not lazy, but I don't have that spur on my ass that most people have, like, "Oh, god. I have to get something out or else my career will be over!" I don't really care if my career is over.