one of the first actors to play Tarzan w… Motion Picture Home. he’d been there for years waiting to die… he spent much of his time running in and out of the wards

I used to hold my social security card up in the air, he told me, but I was so small they couldn’t see it,

One night my father took me on his milk route. There were no longer any horsedrawn wagons. The milk trucks now had engines. After loading up at the milk company we drove off on his rout...

we fought for 17 days inside that tent thrusting and counter-thrusting but finally she got away and I walked outside and spit

I heard it first while screwing a blonde who had the biggest box in Scranton. I listened to it again as I wrote a let… to my mother

That evening I started drinking. It was… I’ve got to get back to the typewriter,… At 2:10 am the phone rang. I was drinki… “Hello.” It was a woman’s voice, a youn… “Are you Henry Chinaski?” “Yes.”

it is like this when you slip down, done like a wound-up victrola (you remember those?) and you go downtown

I went over the other day to pick up my daughter. her mother came out with workman’s overalls on. I gave her the child support money

There were times when Frank and I were friendly with Chuck, Eddie and Gene. But something would always happen (usually I caused it) and then I would be out, and Frank would be partly ou...

I phoned her. It was 1 am. I went over. Tammie lived in a small bungalow behind… She let me in. “Be quiet. Don’t wake Dancy. She’s my… old and she’s asleep in the bedroom.”

We got back to 1010. I had my check. I’… “They knew who I was,” she said. “Somet… They had known who she was all right. S… There was a knock on the door. Two peop… He wore sandals and old torn bluejeans;…