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Ya got cigarettes?” she asks. “Yes,” I say,“I got cigarettes.” “Matches?” she asks.“Enough to burn Rome.” “Whiskey?”“Enough whiskey for a Mississippi ...more

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Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe. If you could get away from the obvious o...more

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Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your bod...more

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There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking.

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I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.

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Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When ...more

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When I get down to my last dime I'll just walk over to skid row.""There are some real weirdos down there.""They're everywhere.

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The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in t...more

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waitingin a life full of little storiesfor a death to come

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I needed a vacation. I needed 5 women. I needed to get the wax out of my ears. My car needed an oil change. I'd failed to file my damned income tax. O...more

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I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge quantities. I could ...more

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The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the cars. There was almost always a man and a women, st...more

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it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horseor that the hummingbird is so seldomseenor that we are too senseless to goinsane.coffee. give u...more

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it does seemthe more we drinkthe better the wordsgo.

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one doesn't even think ofthe liverand if the liverdoesn't think ofus, that'sfine.