take a writer away from his typewr… and all you have left is the sickness which started him

Markov claims I am trying to stab his soul but I’d prefer his wife. put my feet on the coffee table and he says,

So gramps wrote Joyce a big check and there we were. We rented a little house up on a hill, and then Joyce got this stupid moralistic thing. “We both ought to get jobs,” Joyce said, “to...

the girls are coming home in their… and I sit by the window and watch. there’s a girl in a red dress driving a white car

Each night as I got ready to go on in, Joyce had my clothing laid out on the bed. Everything was the most expensive money could buy. I never wore the same pair of pants, the same shirt,...

The next thing I knew, I had a young girl from Texas on my lap. I won’t go into details of how I met her. Anyway, there it was. She was 23. I was 36. She had long blonde hair and was go...

a woman told a man when he got off a plane that I was dead. a magazine printed the fact that I was dead

my moustache is pasted-on and my wig and my eyebrows and even my eyes... then something stuns me... the lampshades swing, I hear

one of the terrible things is really being in bed night after night with a woman you no longer

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

went for a walk on Hollywood Boul… looked down and there was a large… walking beside me. his pace was exactly the same as m… we stopped at traffic signals toge…

The boys on Dorsey station didn’t know my problems. I’d enter through the back way each night, hide my sweater in a tray and walk in to get my timecard: We had a game going, the black-w...

The next day in bed I got tired of waiting for the airplanes and I found a large yellow notebook that had been meant for high school work. It was empty. I found a pen. I went to bed wit...

I tried it standing up this time. it doesn’t usually work. this time it seemed