R.O.T.C. kept me away from sports while the other guys practiced every day. They made the school teams, won their letters and got the girls. My days were spent mostly marching around in...

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...

The next day in bed I got tired of waiting for the airplanes and I found a large yellow notebook that had been meant for high school work. It was empty. I found a pen. I went to bed wit...

we were in bed and she started to fight: “you son of a bitch! you just wait a min… I’ll get you!” I began laughing:

once starving in Philadelphia I had a small room it was evening going into night and I stood at my window on the 3rd floo…

a house with 7 or 8 people living in it getting up the rent. there’s a stereo never used and a set of bongos

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

stepped into the wrong end of the Jacuzz… right leg which was bad to begin with, t… with a tv writer and an actor, something… life to make a sitcom and luckily that f… day at the track I get a box seat in the…

she cut my toenails the night before, and in the morning she said, “I think I… just lay here all day.” which meant she wasn’t going to work. she was at my apartment—which meant anot…

I was the last one off the plane and the… “My god!” she laughed. “You look awful!… “Joanna, let’s have a Bloody Mary while… We walked into the bar and sat down. “You’ll never make Paris this way.”

Meanwhile, there was still Joyce, and her geraniums, and a couple of million if I could hang on. Joyce and the flies and the geraniums. I worked the night shift, 12 hours, and she pawed...

big sloppy wounded dog hit by a car and walking toward the curbing making enormous sounds

I’ve come by, she says, to tell you that this is it. I’m not kidding, it’s over. this is it. I sit on the couch watching her arrange her long red hair before my bedroom

I got his ashes, she said, and I took t… out to sea and I scattered his ashes and they didn’t even look like ashes and the urn was weighted with