On Shakespere - I cut and pasted off a sight, I think it's a genuine quote
He's unreadable and overrated. But people don't want to hear that. You see, you cannot attack shrines. Shakespeare is embedded through the centuries. You can say "So-and-so is lousy actor!" But you can't say Shakespeare is shit. The longer something is around, snobs begin to attach themselves to it, like suckerfish. When snobs feel something is safe...they attach. The moment you tell them the truth, they go wild. They can't handle it. It's attacking their own thought process. They disgust me.
Also I'm going on memory but I remember reading something along the lines of -
Here I was in a cheep room, drinking and starving and he was talking about the troubles of a king
He dissed Allen Ginsberg a few times... recently read this from the Howard Sounds biog where they were reading together
"Everyone knows after Howl you never wrote anything worth a shit" said Bukowski, angry his offer of a drink had been rejected. He turned to the people around them, and asked "Has Allen written anything worth a shit since Howl and Kaddish?"