Essential CHARLES BUKOWSKI Quotes Now at Your Fingertips! "If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life." ~ c.b. "It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies... not the death of his love but the shoelace that snaps with no time left." "The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence." "Love is kind of like when you see a fog in the morning, when you wake up before the sun comes out. It's just a little while, and then it burns away... Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality."