But there were some good moments. My sometime friend from the neighborhood, Gene, who was a year older than I, had a buddy, Harry Gibson, who had had one professional fight (he’d lost)....

dogs and angels are not very different. I often go to this place to eat about 2:30 in the afternoon

The toughest in the station. Apartment houses with boxes that had scrubbed-out names or no names at all, under tiny lightbulbs in dark halls. Old ladies standing in halls, up and down t...

There was this place. It stretched over the sea, it was built over the sea. An old place, but with a touch of class. We got a room on the first floor. You could hear the ocean running d...

they talk down through the centuries to us, and this we need more and more, the statues and paintings in midnight age

murder the roaches spit out paper clips and the helicopter circles and cir… smelling for blood

30 dogs, 20 men on 20 horses and o… and look here, they write, you are a dupe for the state, the… you are in the ego-dream, read your history, study the monet…

you know what Li Po said when ask… Artist or Rich? I’d rather be Rich,” he replied,… sitting on the doorsteps of the Rich.”

Cleo’s going to make it now she’s got her shit together she split with Barney Barney wasn’t good for her she got a bigger apartment

re-reading some of Fante’s The Wine of Youth in bed this mid-afternoon my big cat

there’s Barry in his ripped walkin… he’s on Thorazine is 24 looks 38 lives with his mother in the same

no we can’t we can’t win it I’ve decided we can’t win it just for a while we thought we cou… but that was just for a while