At Mt. Justin, biology class was neat. We had Mr. Stanhope for our teacher. He was an old guy about 55 and we pretty much dominated him. Lilly Fischman was in the class and she was real...

went for a walk on Hollywood Boul… looked down and there was a large… walking beside me. his pace was exactly the same as m… we stopped at traffic signals toge…

feet of cheese coffeepot soul hands that hate poolsticks eyes like paperclips I prefer red wine

16 years old during the depression I’d come home drunk and all my clothing— shorts, shirts, stockings—

I began receiving letters from a girl in New York City. Her name was Mindy. She had run across a couple of my books, but the best thing about her letters was that she seldom mentioned w...

it is not very good to not get through whether it’s the wall the human mind

in the center of the action you have to lay down like an anima… until it charges, you have to lay down

very tall girl lifts her nose at m… outside a supermarket as if I were a walking garbage can; and I had no desire for her, no more desire

a woman told a man when he got off a plane that I was dead. a magazine printed the fact that I was dead

look there. the one you considered killing you… for. you saw her the other day getting out of her car

When I awakened it was 1:30 pm. I took a bath, got dressed, checked the mail. A letter from a young man in Glendale. "Dear Mr. Chinaski: I am a young writer and I think that I am a good...

the rooms at the hospital went for 550 a day. that was for the room alone. the amazing thing, though, was tha… in some of the rooms

we’d had any number of joints and… beer and I was on the bed stretche… and she said, “look, I’ve had 3 ab… in a row, real fast, and I’m sick… abortions, I don’t want you to sti…