#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
here I’ll be 55 in a week. what will I write about
It was 3 or 4 days before I had to fly to Houston to give a reading. I went to the track, drank at the track, and afterwards I went to a bar on Hollywood Boulevard. I went home at 9 or ...
the boys come up the boys climb up the brown pole as the waterheater gurgles in Spanish
the old L.A. Public Library burn… down that library downtown and with it went large part of my
she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankl… and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists my god,
a woman, a tire that’s flat, a disease, a desire: fears in front of you, fears that hold so still
“Get a seat for her, put her on the tab,” I told Marty. “All right. We’ll set her up. We’re S.R.O. We’ve had to turn away 150 and it’s 30 minutes before you go on.” “I want to introduce...
she was hot, she was so hot I didn’t want anybody else to have… and if I didn’t get home on time she’d be gone, and I couldn’t bear… I’d go mad. . .
we had goldfish and they circled a… in the bowl on the table near the… covering the picture window and my mother, always smiling, wanting… to be happy, told me, ‘be happy He…
the old fart, he used his literary… to reel them in one at a time, each younger than the last. he liked to meet them for luncheon… wine
she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankles, and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists
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…
let me speak as a friend although the centuries hang between us and neither you nor I can see the moon. be careful less the onion blind th…
Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or… To do a dull thing with style is p… To do a dangerous thing with style… Bullfighting can be an art
Wednesday night found me at the airport waiting for Iris. I sat around and looked at the women. None of them—except for one or two—looked as good as Iris. There was something wrong with...