I dialed it now, and the machine picked up. I listened to a dead man's voice. I hung up, wondering how long it would be before someone unplugged the machine, how long before the telephone company cut...
He patted his breast pocket again, and of course it was still empty, cigarettes hadn’t mysteriously appeared in it since he last checked. He walked over to the desk and shook a cigarette out of the pa...
Earlier you made her sound like a victim. Now she sounds like a villain. Everybody’s both.
A treat indeed, to read Raymond Chandler for the first time. I almost envied the man,
36.80. So all I have to do is wait and acquire each stamp as it becomes available, right? Well, yes, at least in theory. But what happens, more often than not, is that a stamp I need is grouped in a s...
You have a better chance to get pregnant if you keep your knees way up and stay that way as long as you can.
There is no better way to learn how to write than by writing a novel.
Shylocking
Regummed. A regummed stamp is one which has lost its original gum somewhere along the way, only to have it replaced with new gum. When the equivalent is performed on, say, a Rembrandt oil painting, we...
You don’t sleep. You’re thirty-four years old and lost the power to sleep when you were eighteen. Is
When someone put money in your hand you closed your fingers around it and put it in your pocket.
When I have a look at my own albums, it strikes me how thin they’d be but for war and rebellion.
Sometimes it's a dog-eat-dog world and the rest of the time it's the other way around.
People go through changes and life does the damnedest things to us all.
It's enough of a strain killing people. I've no time for deer.--Mick Ballou
Imaginative persons could probably find interesting things to do with handcuffs and a nightstick.
If you are lying, you have built your lie on true foundations.
I settled for a cup of coffee. Only it wasn't coffee. It was a coffee substitute made by grinding up dandelion roots. The idea was that it wouldn't keep you awake, and it's always seemed to me that th...
I don’t sleep, have not slept in sixteen years—
He was always inclined to be a moody man, very exuberant when things were going right, very depressed when they weren't.