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 dead dogs of nowhere bark as you approach another traffic accident. cars one standing on its

half drunk I left her place her warm blankets and I was hungover didn’t even know what town

he said, “I was working in Hollyw… working in Hollywood and he was the worst: he was too drunk to sta… end of the afternoon and so I had… into a taxi

let me speak as a friend although the centuries hang between us and neither you nor I can see the moon. be careful less the onion blind th…

16 and one-half inch neck 68 years old lifts weights body like a young

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...

he talked about Steinbeck and Tho… wrote like a cross between the two… and I lived in a hotel on Figuero… close to the bars and he lived further uptown in a s…

They are building a house half a block down and I sit up here with the shades down listening to the sounds,

women don’t know how to love, she told me. you know how to love but women just want to leech.

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

these women are supposed to come and see me but they never do. there’s the one with the long scar…

They had this thing called Training Class, and so for 30 minutes each night, anyhow, we didn’t have to stick mail. A big Italiano got up on the lecture platform to tell us where it was....

“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...