When Jonstone saw me the next 5 a.m. he spun in his swivel and his face and his shirt were the same color. But he said nothing. I didn’t care. I had been up to 2 a.m. drinking and screw...

the higher you climb the greater the pressure. those who manage to endure learn

she was a short one getting fat and she had once been beautiful and she drank the wine she drank the wine in bed and

There are sketches on the walls of… and outside a large green bus swer… insanity sprung from a waving line… says the radio, and Jane Austin,… “I am going to do her portrait on…

the critics now have me drinking champagne and driving a BMW and also married to a socialite from

I never wear dark shades but this red head went to get a prescription filled on Hollywood… and she kept haggling and working… me, snapping and snarling.

probably from the belly button or… bed, or maybe from the mouth of th… the car crash on the avenue that l… scattered on the grass. she comes from love gone wrong und…

There was this place. It stretched over the sea, it was built over the sea. An old place, but with a touch of class. We got a room on the first floor. You could hear the ocean running d...

re-reading some of Fante’s The Wine of Youth in bed this mid-afternoon my big cat

well, first Mae West died and then George Raft, and Eddie G. Robinson’s been gone long time,

she’s from Texas and weighs 103 pounds and stands before the mirror combing oceans of reddish hair

I remember the Model-T. Sitting high, the running boards seemed friendly, and on cold days, in the mornings, and often at other times, my father had to fit the hand-crank into the front...

sleep at Lila’s and in the morning we get the breakfast special at th… then it’s up to her friend Buffy’s… Buffy has boy twins, father in dou… in a $150-a-month apt.

my daughter is most glorious. we are eating a takeout snack in my car in Santa Monica.

you no faces no faces at all laughing at nothing—