I have been hanging here headless for so long that the body has forgotten

old Butch, they fixed him the girls don’t look like much anymore. when Big Sam moved out of the back

she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankles, and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists

The first thing I remember is being under something. It was a table, I saw a table leg, I saw the legs of the people, and a portion of the tablecloth hanging down. It was dark under the...

my mother, father and I walked to the market once a week for our government relief food: cans of beans, cans of

I’m soft. I dream too. I let myself dream. I dream of being famous. I dream of walking the streets of London and

I was sitting with an anarchist from Beverly Hills, Ben Solvnag, who was writing my biography when I heard her footsteps on the court walk. I knew the sound—they were always fast and fr...

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

On Christmas I had Betty over. She baked a turkey and we drank. Betty always liked huge Christmas trees. It must have been 7 feet tall, and 1/2 as wide, covered with lights, bulbs, tins...

Then I started attending Mt. Justin Jr. High. About half the guys from Delsey Grammar School went there, the biggest and toughest half. Another gang of giants came from other schools. O...

the other day I’m out at the track betting Early Bird that’s when you bet at the track before it opens)

I was asked to give a reading at a famous nightclub, The Lancer, on Hollywood Boulevard. I agreed to read two nights. I was to follow a rock group, The Big Rape, each night. I was getti...