The next thing I knew, I had a young girl from Texas on my lap. I won’t go into details of how I met her. Anyway, there it was. She was 23. I was 36. She had long blonde hair and was go...

I’m in bed. it’s morning and I hear: where are your socks? please get dressed!

I took Tanya to Santa Anita. The current sensation was a 16 year old jockey still riding with his 5 pound bug advantage. He was from the east and was riding at Santa Anita for the first...

I am driving down Wilton Avenue when this girl of about 15 dressed in tight blue jeans that grip her behind like two hand… steps out in front of my car

The boys on Dorsey station didn’t know my problems. I’d enter through the back way each night, hide my sweater in a tray and walk in to get my timecard: We had a game going, the black-w...

So gramps wrote Joyce a big check and there we were. We rented a little house up on a hill, and then Joyce got this stupid moralistic thing. “We both ought to get jobs,” Joyce said, “to...

this man sometimes forgets who he is. sometimes he thinks he’s the Pope. other times he thinks he’s a

what is it about lobsters and crab… those white-pink shells that always make me hungry just looking at them there in the butcher’s display case

after the slaughter house there was a bar around the corner and I sat in there and watched the sun go down through the window,

I was sitting with an anarchist from Beverly Hills, Ben Solvnag, who was writing my biography when I heard her footsteps on the court walk. I knew the sound—they were always fast and fr...

My father always ran the neighborhood kids away from our house. I was told not to play with them but I walked down the street and watched them anyhow. “Hey, Heinie!” they yelled, “Why d...

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

he got knifed in broad daylight, c… holding his hands over his gut, dr… on the pavement. nobody waiting in line left their… he made it to the Mission doorway,…

we were in bed and she started to fight: “you son of a bitch! you just wait… I’ll get you!” I began laughing:

I went to this place to see a movi… on tv Alexander the Great, and here come the armies ta ta ta