screen like a burglar to take your… the snake had crawled the hole, and she said, tell me about yourself.

A sound awakened me. It was not quite daylight. Cecelia was moving around getting dressed. I looked at my watch. “I want to watch the sun come up. I love sunrises!” “I haven’t been able...

When Jonstone saw me the next 5 a.m. he spun in his swivel and his face and his shirt were the same color. But he said nothing. I didn’t care. I had been up to 2 a.m. drinking and screw...

the higher you climb the greater the pressure. those who manage to endure learn

The next day I sat in the hall in my green tin chair, waiting to be called. Across from me sat a man who had something wrong with his nose. It was very red and very raw and very fat and...

knew you were a bad-ass,” he said. you sat in the back of Art class a… you never said anything. then I saw you in that brutal figh… with the guy with the dirty yellow

So I was surprised when the phone rang a couple of nights later and it was Cassie. “What are you doing, Hank?” She gave me the address, it was either Westwood or West L. A. “I have plen...

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

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...

he’s 17 . mother, he said, how do I crack an egg? all right, she said to me, you don… sit there looking like that.

the telephone has not been kind of… of late there have been more and m… from people who want to come over… from people who are depressed from people who are lonely