It was 3 or 4 days before I had to fly to Houston to give a reading. I went to the track, drank at the track, and afterwards I went to a bar on Hollywood Boulevard. I went home at 9 or ...

One night I was assigned to the stool next to Butchner. He didn’t stick any mail. He just sat there. And talked. A young girl came in and sat down at the end of the aisle. I heard Butch...

nobody goes downtown anymore the plants and trees have been cut… Pershing Square the grass is brown and the street preachers are not a…

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

I went with two ladies down to Venice to look for antique furniture. I parked in back of the store and went in with them.

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

a single dog walking alone on a hot sidewalk of summer appears to have the power of ten thousand gods.

Frank liked airplanes. He lent me all his pulp magazines about World War 1. The best was Flying Aces. The dog-fights were great, the Spads and the Fokkers mixing it. I read all the stor...

red-eyed and dizzy as I the bird came flying all the way from Egypt at 5 o’clock in the morning, and Maria almost stumbled on her s…

you know what Li Po said when ask… Artist or Rich? I’d rather be Rich,” he replied,… sitting on the doorsteps of the Rich.”

—he’s a dandy —small moustache —usually sucking on a cigar he tends to lean into cars as he transacts business

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

A week later I was driving down Hollywood Boulevard with Lydia. A weekly entertainment newspaper published in California at that time had asked me to write an article on the life of the...