... 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
I'm focusing on writing the best story I can write. Which means I'm doing everything I can to give the artist within… — Hubert Selby, Jr Art Copy Share Image
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… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
Sometimes it seems to stand still. Like you’re in a bag and you can’t get out and somebody’s always telling you that… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
I have to have a meaning in my life. If I roam around without some meaning in my life, I'm in deep… — 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
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
...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
