Quotes by : Hubert Selby Jr.

They came close. Oh they came close. Was all set to put a gun in my mouth and pull the trigger. But there....

I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed; what I’m doing is....

Bodies need poison. Withdrawals without it. Toxin-free airs a killer.

There was a problem and that was that. Why didnt make a fiddlers fuck.

He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something....

Life was not longer something to endure, but to live.

There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things there....

But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. .....

Being an artist doesn't take much. Just everything you got. Which means of course that as the process....

He looked at the houses he had been passing these weeks and though he had never studied them carefully....