the critics now have me drinking champagne and driving a BMW and also married to a socialite from

my daughter is most glorious. we are eating a takeout snack in my car in Santa Monica.

I had been corresponding with a lady in San Francisco for several months. Her name was Liza Weston and she survived by giving dance lessons, including ballet, in her own studio. She was...

the vultures at the zoo (all three of them) sit very quietly in their caged tree and below

Cecelia sat and watched us drink. I could see that I repulsed her. I ate meat. I had no god. I liked to fuck. Nature didn’t interest me. I never voted. I liked wars. Outer space bored m...

The ultra-violet ray machine clicked off. I had been treated on both sides. I took off the goggles and began to dress. Miss Ackerman walked in. “Not yet,” she said, “keep your clothes o...

bet on #6, I try red, I stare at… wonder what Chekhov would do, and… blue plates sit eating the carnage… and look very much like Russians a… my left tit and try to smile like…

The subs themselves made Jonstone possible by obeying his impossible orders. I couldn’t see how a man of such obvious cruelty could be allowed to have his position. The regulars didn’t ...

We came in low over Kansas City, the pilot said the temperature was 20 degrees, and there I was in my thin California sports coat and shirt, lightweight pants, summer stockings, and hol...

this is important enough: to get your feelings down, it is better than shaving or cooking beans with garlic. it is the little we can do

I know a woman who keeps buying puzzles Chinese puzzles blocks

it was Philly and the bartender sa… what and I said, gimme a draft, J… got to get the nerves straight, I’… going to look for a job. you, he s… a job?

she lived in Galveston and was int… T.M. and I went down to visit her and w… continually even though it was ver… weather

I laugh sometimes when I think ab… say Céline at a typewriter or Dostoevsky... or Hamsun...