#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often
I finally, got a day off, and you know what I did? I got up early before Joyce got back in and I went down to the market to do a little shopping, and maybe I was crazy. I walked through...
these things that we support most… have nothing to do with up, and we do with them out of boredom or fear or money or cracked intelligence;
I took women either to the boxing matches or to the racetrack. That Thursday night I took Katherine to the boxing matches at the Olympic auditorium. She had never been to a live fight. ...
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…
look there. the one you considered killing you… for. you saw her the other day getting out of her car
I get too many phone calls. they seek the creature out. they shouldn’t.
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
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
the vultures at the zoo (all three of them) sit very quietly in their caged tree and below
my friend William is a fortunate m… he lacks the imagination to suffer he kept his first job his first wife can drive a car 50,000 miles
Either peace or happiness, let it enfold you when I was a young man I felt these things were dumb, unsophisticated.
I phoned Joyce. “How’s it working with Purple Sti… “What did he do when you told him… “We were sitting across from each… “What happened?”
I was coming home from classes down Westview hill. I never had any books to carry. I passed my exams by listening to the class lectures and by guessing at the answers. I never had to cr...
what you see is what you see: madhouses are rarely on display. that we still walk about and scratch ourselves and light