I used to hold my social security… up in the air, he told me, but I was so small they couldn’t see it,

I read a book about John Dos Pas… the book once radical—communist John ended up in the Hollywood Hi… and reading the Wall Street Journal

92 years old his tooth has been bothering him had to get it filled he lost his left eye 40 years ago

this man used to be an interesting writer, he was able to say brisk and refreshing things. at the time

Jack London drinking his life awa… writing of strange and heroic men. Eugene O’Neill drinking himself o… while writing his dark and poetic works.

sleep at Lila’s and in the morning we get the breakfast special at th… then it’s up to her friend Buffy’s… Buffy has boy twins, father in dou… in a $150-a-month apt.

listen, he said, you ever seen a b… bucket? no, I told him. well, what happens is that now and… will climb up on top of the others

she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankles, and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists

when I look back now at the abuse I took from her I feel shame that I was so innocent,

the blue pencil of the wave shots of yellow road a steering wheel an insane woman sitting next to you

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...

lonely as a dry and used orchard spread over the earth for use and surrender. shot down like an ex—pug selling dailies on the corner.

“Get a seat for her, put her on the tab,” I told Marty. “All right. We’ll set her up. We’re S.R.O. We’ve had to turn away 150 and it’s 30 minutes before you go on.” “I want to introduce...