There were times when Frank and I were friendly with Chuck, Eddie and Gene. But something would always happen (usually I caused it) and then I would be out, and Frank would be partly ou...

the German hotel was very strange… double doors to the rooms, very th… looked the park and the vasser ter… it was usually too late for breakf… would be everywhere changing sheet…

call it love stand it up in the failing light put it in a dress pray sing beg cry laugh

They had me in the counselor’s office in one of the back rooms of the second floor. “Let me see how you look, Chinaski.” He looked at me. “All right, Mr. Chinaski, we’d like to know whe...

I’m big I suppose that’s why my women alwa… small but this 6 foot goddess who deals in real estate

she bent over the side of the bed and opened the portfolio along the side of the wall. we were drinking. she said, “you promised me these

I took Tanya to the airport the next afternoon. We had a drink in the same bar. The high-yellow wasn’t around; all that leg was with somebody else. “No. You love sex and there’s nothing...

I was the last one off the plane and there was Joanna Dover. “Joanna, let’s have a Bloody Mary while we wait for my baggage. Oh hell, I don’t have any baggage. But let’s have a Bloody M...

I go to pick her up. she’s on some errand. she always has errands many things to do. I have nothing to do.

Julio came by with his guitar and… latest song. Julio was famous, he wrote songs a… published books of little drawings… poems.

the motion of the human heart: strangled over Missouri; sheathed in hot wax in Boston; burned like a potato in Norfolk; lost in the Allegheny Mountains;

I began receiving letters from a girl in New York City. Her name was Mindy. She had run across a couple of my books, but the best thing about her letters was that she seldom mentioned w...

Phillipe ’s is an old time cafe off Alameda street just a little north and east of the main post office. Phillipe’s opens at 5 a.m.

we were in bed and she started to fight: “you son of a bitch! you just wait… I’ll get you!” I began laughing: