I got back, made love to Lydia several times, got in a fight with her, and left L. A. International late one morning to give a reading in Arkansas. I was lucky enough to have a seat by ...

got into my BMW and drove down to… pick up my American Express Gold… told the girl at the desk what I wanted. you’re Mr. Chinaski,” she

twitching in the sheets— to face the sunlight again, that’s clearly trouble. I like the city better when the

the waste of words continues with a stunning persistence as the waiter runs by carrying the… tray

I’ve always had trouble with money. this one place I worked everybody ate hot dogs and potato chips

I met an old drunk on the street one afternoon. I used to know him from the days with Betty when we made the rounds of the bars. He told me that he was now a postal clerk and that there...

On Christmas I had Betty over. She baked a turkey and we drank. Betty always liked huge Christmas trees. It must have been 7 feet tall, and 1/2 as wide, covered with lights, bulbs, tins...

monkey feet small and blue walking toward you as the back of a building falls of… and an airplane chews the white sk…

no way back to Barcelona. the green soldiers have invaded th… madmen rule Spain and during a heat wave in 1952 I b… no way back to the Rock of Gibral…

if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce— pickers of Salinas?

old grey-haired waitresses in cafes at night have given it up, and as I walk down sidewalks of light and look into windows

I get too many phone calls. they seek the creature out. they shouldn’t.