
Doc Rhodes came in the morning. He was a junkie. Before leaving for school, I saw something in a heated spoon and sucked into a syringe. During the course of Latin, I passed the slumber to the excitement. Sorry I asked. I went to the billiard room S & H, where I trained at three-cushion billiards. The phone rang. My mother had found. My father was dying.
When I got home, he was dead. I had never set foot in a Catholic church, but I made a genuflection to his side, I kissed him, and spent the night in a Turkish bath. "
Nicholas Ray, Journal dating from the early 70 in Action (the direction of actor) , Yellow Now, 1992