first they used to, he told me, gun and bomb the elephants, you could hear their screams over all th… but you flew high to bomb the people, you never saw it,

there he is: not too many hangovers not too many fights with women not too many flat tires never a thought of suicide

they say that nothing is wasted: either that or it all is.

was on the train to Del Mar and I left… to go to the bar car. I had a beer and c… back and sat down. pardon me,” said the lady next to me, “b… sitting in my husband’s seat.”

A sound awakened me. It was not quite d… “It’s 5 am. What are you doing?” “I want to watch the sun come up. I lov… “No wonder you don’t drink.” “I’ll be back. We can have breakfast to…

unaccountably we are alone forever alone and it was meant to be that way, was never meant

the schoolyard was a horror show: the bu… freaks the beatings up against the wire fence our schoolmates watching glad that they were not the victim;

I read a book about John Dos Passos an… the book once radical—communist John ended up in the Hollywood Hills li… and reading the Wall Street Journal

one of the terrible things is really being in bed night after night with a woman you no longer

I got up for a glass of water and as I walked into the kitchen I saw Picasso walk up to Joyce and lick her ankle. I was barefooted and she didn’t hear me. She had on high heels. She loo...

look there. the one you considered killing yourself for. you saw her the other day getting out of her car

We came in low over Kansas City, the pilot said the temperature was 20 degrees, and there I was in my thin California sports coat and shirt, lightweight pants, summer stockings, and hol...