I never wear dark shades but this red head went to get a prescription filled on Hollywood… and she kept haggling and working… me, snapping and snarling.

Luckily I had auto insurance that paid for a rental car. I drove Katherine to the racetrack in it. We sat in the sundeck at Hollywood Park near the stretch turn. Katherine said she didn...

the guy in the front court can’t speak English, he’s Greek, a rather stupid-looking and fairly ugly man. now my landlord does some painting…

it’s unfortunate, and simply not the style, but I don’t care: girls remind me of hair in the sink, girls remind me of intestines and bladders and excretory movements; it’s unfortunate a...

it is the man you’ve never seen wh… keeps you going, the one who might arrive someday. he isn’t out on the streets or

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.

half-past nowhere alone in the crumbling tower of myself stumbling in this the

they laugh continually even when a board falls down and destroys a face or distorts a

these things that we support most… have nothing to do with up, and we do with them out of boredom or fear or money or cracked intelligence;

“You ought to try to be like Abe Mortenson,” said my mother, “he gets straight A’s. Why can’t you ever get any A’s?” “Henry is dead on his ass,” said my father. “Sometimes I can’t belie...

if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce-pickers of Salinas?

turmoil is the god madness is the god permanent living peace is permanent living death. agony can kill

I mean, I just slept I awoke with a fly on my elbow and I named the fly Benny then I killed him and then I got up and looked in th…

near the corner table in the cafe middle-aged couple sit. they have finished their

I had Fridays and Saturdays off, which made Sunday the roughest day. Plus the fact that on Sunday they made me report at 3:30 p.m. instead of my usual 6:18 p.m. This Sunday I went in an...