I had to talk to people. All people scared me.
Fear and I played peek-a-boo - it always seemed to grab my balls and twist just when it felt like something inside me could banish all the bullshit forever.
Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively.
But who?
All I have is the will to remember. Time revoked/fever dreams — I wake up reaching, afraid I’ll forget. Pictures keep the woman young. L.A., fall 1958.
There's a kid or some kids somewhere. I'll never know them. They're particle-puzzle-cubing right now. They might be mini-misanthropes from Moosefart, Montana. They might be demi-dystopians from Dogdic...
Padre Divino, concedimi una tregua. Accetta la mia fraudolenta rettitudine. Revoca l'arroganza che mi lega agli intrighi di altri e mi conduce verso orridi errori e unioni sbagliate. Tempera la mia am...
I told lies and wondered where I would go if my own past was all I had left.
I am best served in my life’s goals if I lay in the dark, brood, sleep, listen to classical music, spend time with my few friends, and chase women. That’s what I do. I chase women. I spend time with m...
He was about to pocket a list of local sanitariums when he heard Traitor, and saw Mickey and Herman Gerstein standing a few feet away. Cohen with a clean shot, but a half dozen witnesses spoiling his...
Canned shtick—Pete gleeful:‘The left one's the hospital, the right one's death. The right one steals your life while the left steals your breath. These hands are bad juju and the bad boogaloo, they're...
Twenty-nine years old and on her third masters degree because she’s afraid to go out and meet the world. Sad, isn’t it? Mal sighed. Tragic.
The incumbent Sheriff, Kickback Kit Denkins, was a notorious no-goodnik. He took bribes from crooked building contractors and solicited high school girls for their soiled underwear.
Our shared world is humanly unquantifiable and ideologically confused. Which one of them is capable of implementing the most recognizable harm or good?
Jimmy Hoffa said, I know how Jesus must have felt. The fucking pharaohs rose to power on his coattails like the fucking Kennedy brothers are rising on mine.Heshie Ryskind said, Get your history straig...
I got an emergency leave. I visited my dad on his deathbed. His last words to me: Try to pick up every waitress who serves you.
I do three weeks at the Hall of Justice Jail. It's a potent crime primer. I'm the geek that all the pro thugs disdain. I observe them up close. It's the '60s. It's social-grievance-as-justification-fo...
I didn't care who we were. I required no consummation. I knew that whoever we were and whatever we had would never stop.
He took three shots a night-no more, no less.He switched from whisky to straight gin. The bum compensated for the scant volume.Three shots tweaked his hatreds. Four shots and up cut those hatreds all...
He kept his extralegal shit there. Throwdown guns, burglars’ tools, maryjane to plant on suspects.