There were times when Frank and I were friendly with Chuck, Eddie and Gene. But something would always happen (usually I caused it) and then I would be out, and Frank would be partly ou...

drive to the beach at night in the winter and sit and look at the burned-dow… wonder why they just let it sit th… in the water.

When I awakened a few hours later, Tanya was not in the bed. It was only 9 am. I found her sitting on the couch drinking out of a pint of whiskey. “I always get up at noon. We’re going ...

you shoulda been at this party, I know you hate parties but you seem to be at most of them… anyhow, I took my girl, you know her—

there are these small cliffs above the sea and it is night, late night; I have been unable to sleep, and with my car above me

The voices of the people were the same, no matter where you carried the mail you heard the same things over and over again. “You’re late, aren’t you?” “Where’s the regular carrier?” “He...

Fay was all right with the pregnancy. For an old gal, she was all right. We waited around at our place. Finally the time came. “It won’t be long,” she said. “I don’t want to get there t...

man, he said, sitting on the steps your car sure needs a wash and wax… I can do it for you for 5 bucks, I got the wax, I got the rags, I… I need.

you just don’t know how to do it, you know that, and you can’t do a lot of other useful things either. it’s the fault of the

one of Lorca’s best lines is, “agony, always agony ...” think of this when you

eating cold plums in bed she told me about the German who owned everything on the block except the custom drapery shop and he tried to buy

the bulls are grand as the side of… and although they kill them for th… it is the bull that burns the fire… and although there are cowardly bu… there are cowardly matadors and co…

the German hotel was very strange… double doors to the rooms, very th… looked the park and the vasser ter… it was usually too late for breakf… would be everywhere changing sheet…

they photograph you on your porch and on your couch and standing in the courtyard or leaning against your car these photographers