It was a Wednesday night, 12:30 am and I was very sick. My stomach was raw, but I managed to hold down a few beers. Tammie was with me and she seemed sympathetic. Dancy was at her grand...

watch them push the crippled and t… in their wheelchairs on to the electric lift which carries them up into the lon… where each chair is locked down

you shoulda been at this party, I know you hate parties but you seem to be at most of them… anyhow, I took my girl, you know her—

R.O.T.C. (Reserve Officer Training Corps) was for the misfits. Like I said, it was either that or gym. I would have taken gym but I didn’t want people to sec the boils on my back. There...

Somehow the money slipped away after that and soon I left the track and sat around in my apartment waiting for the 90 days’ leave to run out. My nerves were raw from the drinking and th...

the dead dogs of nowhere bark as you approach another traffic accident. cars one standing on its

beheaded in the middle of the night scratching my sides I am covered with bites kick my white legs out of the shee…

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

He hinted at times that I was a bastard and I told him to listen to Brahms, and I told him to learn to paint and drink and not be dominated by women and dollars but he screamed at me, F...

I’ve watched this city burn twice in my lifetime and the most notable event was the reaction of the politicians in the

bluebird there’s a bluebird in my heart tha… wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, say, stay in there, I’m not going

I didn’t contest the divorce, didn’t go to court. Joyce gave me the car. She didn’t drive. All I had lost was 3 or 4 million. But I still had the post office. “I saw you with that bitch...

ah, Merryman, fighter on the docks, killed a man while they were unloa… bananas. mean the man he killed

eating cold plums in bed she told me about the German who owned everything on the block except the custom drapery shop and he tried to buy

used to drive those trucks so hard and for so long that my right foot would go dead from pushing down on the accelerator.