There were continual fights. The teachers didn’t seem to know anything about them. And there was always trouble when it rained. Any boy who brought an umbrella to school or wore a rainc...

“It’s the manager, Freddy. He has started whistling this song. He’s whistling it when I come in in the morning and he never stops, and he’s whistling it when I go home at night. It’s be...

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

I met her somehow through correspo… and she began sending me very sexy… and this being mixed in with a min… confused me somewhat and I got in… through the mountains and valleys…

I have been hanging here headless for so long that the body has forgotten

vain vanilla ladies strutting while van Gogh did it to himself. girls pulling on silk hose

I’m out of matches. the springs in my couch are broken. they stole my footlocker. they stole my oil painting of

I’m big I suppose that’s why my women alwa… small but this 6 foot goddess who deals in real estate

turmoil is the god madness is the god permanent living peace is permanent living death. agony can kill

We had another fight. Later I was back at my place but I didn’t feel like sitting there alone and drinking. The night harness racing meet was on. I took a pint and went out to the track...

in San Francisco the landlady, 80… Victrola up the stairway and I pl… until they beat on the walls. there was a large bucket in the ce… filled with beer and winebottles;

The first three or four days at Mears-Starbuck were identical. In fact, similarity was a very dependable thing at Mears-Starbuck. The caste system was an accepted fact. There wasn’t a s...

Well, I took the scheme sheet and I related everything to sex and age. This guy lived in this house with 3 women. He belt-whipped one (her name was the name of the street and her age th...