#1973 #AmericanWriters #AtTerrorStreetAndAgonyWay #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame
the schoolyard was a horror show:… freaks the beatings up against the wire f… our schoolmates watching glad that they were not the victim…
dumb, Jesus Christ, some people are so dumb you can hear them splashing around
she wrote me a letter from a small room near the Seine. she said she was going to dancing class, she got up, she said at 5 o’clock in the morning
are we going to the movies or not? she asked him. all right, he said, let’s go. I’m not going to put any pan ties… so you can finger-fuck me in the
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...
if you’re going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don’t even start. if you’re going to try, go all the way.
some people never go crazy. me, sometimes I’ll lie down behind… for 3 or 4 days. they’ll find me there. it’s Cherub, they’ll say, and
had lost the last race big somebody had stolen my coat could feel the flu coming on and my tires were low. I went in to get a
In the betting line the other day man behind me asked, “are you Henry Chinaski?”
sun-stroked women without men on a Santa Monica Monday; the men are working or in jail or insane;
we fought for 17 days inside that… thrusting and counter-thrusting but finally she got away and I walked outside and spit
“What’s a guy like you doing in a place like this?” We got into my car and she told me where she lived. We stopped for a couple of big steaks, vegetables, stuff for a salad, potatoes, b...
There are sketches on the walls of… and outside a large green bus swer… insanity sprung from a waving line… says the radio, and Jane Austin,… “I am going to do her portrait on…
16 and one-half inch neck 68 years old lifts weights body like a young
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