you haven’t lived until you’ve been in a flophouse with nothing but one light bulb

bluebird there’s a bluebird in my heart tha… wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, say, stay in there, I’m not going

they’d come around and they’d ask “you finished your 2nd novel yet?” “no.”

he packaged it up neatly in differ… sending the legs to an aunt in St.… the head to a scoutmaster in Brook… the belly to a cross-eyed butcher… the female organs were sent to a y…

here things are tough but they’re mostly always tough. basically I’m just trying to get a… with the female. when you first meet them their eyes

I’ve always had trouble with money. this one place I worked everybody ate hot dogs and potato chips

all the way from Mexico straight from the fields to 14 wins 13 by k.o. he was ranked #3

it is like this when you slip down, done like a wound-up victrola (you remember those?) and you go downtown

Tammie came by that night. She appeared to be high on uppers. “I want some champagne,” she said. Then the phone rang. It was Lydia. “I just wondered how you were doing. ...” “You know D...

oh, how worried they are about my soul! I get letters the phone rings... “are you going to be all right?”

He hinted at times that I was a bastard and I told him to listen to Brahms, and I told him to learn to paint and drink and not be dominated by women and dollars but he screamed at me, F...

That summer, July 1934, they gunned down John Dillinger outside the movie house in Chicago. He never had a chance. The Lady in Red had fingered him. More than a year earlier the banks h...

I got lucky the next day. They called my name. It was a different doctor. I stripped down. He turned a hot white light on me and looked me over. I was sitting on the edge of the examina...