Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago

00:01:07 "The path on the hillside is a stripe of light,

00:05:53 "Hell was cold, not hot

00:09:09 "lying in the sun without responsibilities."

00:12:23 "Rosita was a little older than I. She was from Puerto Rico.

00:14:59 you had to be a doctor or a pharmacist.

00:18:43 We were living in the Seneca Hotel.

00:21:38 "Roy's father smiled and said,

00:24:12 Can't you forget about this, Officer?

00:27:53 And that seemed somehow humiliating to me.

00:30:30 " 'I was born in one in Chicago.'

00:32:38 "The taxi was still waiting with the motor running and they got in.

00:36:11 So the older boys basically preyed upon the younger kids.

00:41:19 "who told Roy that his father had died.

00:44:08 "I kept going over it in my head."

00:47:26 that she would kill herself, or her husband,

00:50:33 "Roy realized that the girl was older than he'd first thought.

00:52:58 About girls and women.

00:55:33 " 'My mother says he's part Indian.'

00:57:33 " 'You were in the reformatory?'

00:59:39 "and pushed her tongue deep into Roy's mouth

01:02:13 "As soon as he turned 16, he could get a driver's license.

01:05:02 I knew I wasn't destined to remain there.

01:08:33 "She said, 'Buona sera.'

01:12:16 So I'm with Chekhov.