We all need a meaning to our life.

- Hubert Selby, Jr.

Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there's something inside us that's so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won't be able t…

- Hubert Selby, Jr.

I was sitting at home and had a profound experience. I experienced, in all of my Being, that someday I was going to die, and it wouldn't be like it h…

- Hubert Selby, Jr.

One of the things that fascinates me is the music of speech.

- Hubert Selby, Jr.

Everything about it was wrong. Thats why it worked so good.

- Hubert Selby, Jr.

Obviously, I believe that to pursue the American Dream is not only futile but self-destructive because ultimately it destroys everything and everyone…

- Hubert Selby, Jr.

There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfor…

- Hubert Selby, Jr.

I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed; what I’m doing is judging natural events in such a way that I am cr…

- Hubert Selby, Jr.

Angels is a tough word, because it is so involved with organized religion and everything else. I do know, absolutely, from my experience, there are s…

- Hubert Selby, Jr.