take a writer away from his typewr… and all you have left is the sickness which started him

sitting with the professors we talk about Allen Tate and John Crow Ransom the rugs are clean and the coffeetables shine

the telephone has not been kind of… of late there have been more and m… from people who want to come over… from people who are depressed from people who are lonely

“Be quiet. Don’t wake Dancy. She’s my daughter. She’s 6 years I had a 6-pack of beer. Tammie put it in the refrigerator and came out with two bottles. “My daughter mustn’t see anything....

big black beard tells me that I don’t feel terror I look at him

in the center of the action you have to lay down like an anima… until it charges, you have to lay down

I saw Sara every three or four days, at her place or at mine. We slept together but there was no sex. We came close but we never quite got to it. Drayer Baba’s precepts held strong. We ...

think of de vils in hell and stare at a beautiful vase of flowers as the woman in my bedroom

The riots ended, the baby calmed down, and I found ways to avoid Janko. But the dizzy spells persisted. The doctor wrote me a standing order for the green-white librium capsules and the...

Fay was all right with the pregnancy. For an old gal, she was all right. We waited around at our place. Finally the time came. “It won’t be long,” she said. “I don’t want to get there t...

We continued drinking. Cecelia had just one more and stopped. “I want to go out and look at the moon and stars,” she said. “It’s so beautiful out!” She went outside by the swimming pool...

this one always arrives at the wrong time a basically good sort I suppose an honest man