Hugo Wolf went mad while eating a… and writing his 253rd song; it was… April and the worms came out of th… humming Tannhäuser, and he spilled… with his ink, and his blood fell o…

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...

when I was in grammar school my parents were poor and in my lunch bag there was only a peanut butter sandwich.

places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you… that?

the bulls are grand as the side of… and although they kill them for th… it is the bull that burns the fire… and although there are cowardly bu… there are cowardly matadors and co…

there was a frozen tree that I wan… but the shells came down and in Vegas looking across at a g… at 3:30 in the morning, I died without nails, without a co…

the lilies storm my brain by god by god like nazi storm troopers! do you think I’m going tizzy?

The track had moved down the coast a hundred miles or so. I kept paying the rent on my apartment in town, got in my car and drove down. Once or twice a week I would drive back to the ap...

I saw a vacancy sign in the window in front of a rooming-house, had the cabby pull up. I paid him and walked up on the front porch, rang the bell. I had one black eye from the fight, an...

I’ve watched this city burn twice in my lifetime and the most notable event was the reaction of the politicians in the

During the second and third grades I still didn’t get a chance to play baseball but I knew that somehow I was developing into a player. If I ever got a bat in my hands again I knew I wo...

Shirley came to town with a broken… and met the Chicano who smoked long slim cigars and they got a place together on Beacon street

think of de vils in hell and stare at a beautiful vase of flowers as the woman in my bedroom