One of the things that fascinates me is the music of speech. — Hubert Selby, Jr Communication Copy Share Image
The responsibility of the artist is to transcend the human ego. — Hubert Selby, Jr Art Copy Share Image
As Lao Tzu says, "The Tao that can be named is not the true Tao". — Hubert Selby, Jr Heaven and earth Copy Share Image
People in Germany are very, very responsive to the readings. — Hubert Selby, Jr Germany Copy Share Image
However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return. — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
No matter how beautiful the outside may be, the inside still has feelings and needs that just words don't fulfill. — Hubert Selby, Jr Beautiful Copy Share Image
It seems to me that what the artist sees is the simple and obvious that is invisible to everybody else. — Hubert Selby, Jr Art Copy Share Image
All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter. — Hubert Selby, Jr Comedy Copy Share Image
But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone-- — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
... I started to die 36 hours before I was born, so dying was a way of life for me. — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
An extraordinary writer…It is the vastness of Nick Tosches’ heart that makes it possible to reveal the darkness. — Hubert Selby, Jr Darkness Copy Share Image
But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness. — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there's something inside us that's so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
I've always felt alienated. I realized that I've been terrified my entire life. So I can identify that fear which drives so… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
But I knew that someday I was going to die. And just before I died two things would happen; Number 1: I… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
I don't know that I could really define love. I can't . . . again, it's like trying to define what this… — Hubert Selby, Jr Ability Copy Share Image
...and the night was comfortably warm as the soft filtered light continued to push the darkness into the shadows as they held… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
I suspect there will never be a requiem for a dream, simply because it will destroy us before we have the opportunity… — Hubert Selby, Jr Dream Copy Share Image
...and he just sat back and stared at the tube, almost interested in what was happening, trying to find the ability to… — Hubert Selby, Jr Ability Copy Share Image
If love is what I've experienced, I can't separate it from other people. I can't separate creation, and I can't separate whatever… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
Angels is a tough word, because it is so involved with organized religion and everything else. I do know, absolutely, from my… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
They luxuriated in the feeling of deep and all pervading satisfaction, a feeling of knowing absolutely that all was well with the… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
When I stop doing the things that make me unhappy, I will experience the happiness that is that natural state of being.… — Hubert Selby, Jr Happiness Copy Share Image
Being an artist doesn’t take much, just everything you got. Which means, of course, that as the process is giving you life,… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed; what I’m doing is judging natural… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
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 America Copy Share Image
I certainly do attempt to live according to spiritual principles. That's always the foundation of each and every day. I have experienced… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
The voice so filled with nostalgia that you could almost see the memories floating through the blue smoke, memories not only of… — Hubert Selby, Jr Blue Copy Share Image
The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering. — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
One of the things I have become aware of through the years is how much I love the people I write about. — Hubert Selby, Jr Love Copy Share Image
I think Mozart, like you, is an example of someone who has the gods moving through him, and his religion was creation. — Hubert Selby, Jr Creation Copy Share Image
Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done. — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process. — Hubert Selby, Jr Inspiration Copy Share Image
