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…

— Hubert Selby, Jr

But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

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

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

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

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

The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

We all need a meaning to our life.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

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

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

It seems to me that what the artist sees is the simple and obvious that is invisible to everybody else.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

I don't know how to make the critics happy!

— 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

My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

thats why you cant be worried about the world. theyll just do you in anyway. you can't depend on them because sooner…

— Hubert Selby, Jr

As Lao Tzu says, "The Tao that can be named is not the true Tao".

— Hubert Selby, Jr

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

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

— Hubert Selby, Jr

... I started to die 36 hours before I was born, so dying was a way of life for me.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

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

Writing, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

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

— Hubert Selby, Jr

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

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

However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return.

— Hubert Selby, Jr