You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don't get used to the idea that he's dead just overnight.

California is like a beautiful wild kid on heroin, high as a kite and thinking she's on top of the world, not knowing she's dying, not believing it even if you show her the marks.

I don't know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog.

...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.

the person in this picture is really me.

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.