Charles Bukowski Jail Quotations

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

What? You’d dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?” That’s when you need a drink the most.

As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed.

They looked as if nothing had ever touched them--all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheen of contentment. None of them had ever been in jail, or worked hard with their hands, or even gotten a traffic ticket. Skimmed-milk jollies, the whole bunch.

i never understood society. i undersand that it works somehow and that it functions as a reality and that its realities are necessary to keep us from worse realities. but all i sense are that are plenty of police and jails and judges and laws and that what is meant to protect me is breaking me down...