“I stepped inside. It was almost pitch dark, smelling of old underwear and the sleep of a sick body. A feeble light came from a crack in the window covered by a slice of sacking. Before I could stop him, Sammy had bolted the door…Vapors spilled from our mouths in the cold air. "Let her in, Sammy," I said. "What the hell."”

—  John Fante , book Ask the Dust

Ask the Dust (1939)

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1909–1983; American novelist, short story writer and screen… 1909–1983

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