I didn’t contest the divorce, didn’t go to court. Joyce gave me the car. She didn’t drive. All I had lost was 3 or 4 million. But I still had the post office. “I saw you with that bitch...

I heard it first while screwing a… who had the biggest box in Scranton. I listened to it again as I wrote… to my mother

this poet he’d been drinking 2 or 3 days and he walked out on the stage and looked at that audience and he just knew he was going to do it. there was a grand piano on stage and he walke...

they’d come around and they’d ask “you finished your 2nd novel yet?” “no.”

Lydia liked parties. And Harry was a party-giver. So we were on our way to Harry Ascot’s. Harry was the editor of Retort, a little magazine. His wife wore long see-through dresses, show...

I laugh sometimes when I think ab… say Céline at a typewriter or Dostoevsky... or Hamsun...

rose red sunlight; take it apart in the garage like a puzzle:

I’ve watched this city burn twice in my lifetime and the most notable event was the reaction of the politicians in the

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 cops want me to come down and… some guy who tried to rape me. I’ve lost the key to my car again;… the key to open the door but not t… to start it.

One Sunday Jimmy talked me into going to the beach with him. He wanted to go swimming. I didn’t want to he seen wearing swimming trunks because my hack was covered with boils and scars....

—he’s a dandy —small moustache —usually sucking on a cigar he tends to lean into cars as he transacts business