“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 to stand looking at it. But it's when we're willing ...”

Hubert Selby, Jr.

“A cigarette only takes a certain amount of time to smoke and though this takes time it seems to take less and less with each one and you can only smoke so many, there comes a time when you have to sto...”

Hubert Selby, Jr.

“Its quite an experience to be locked up all by yourself in any size room, no less a little cell.”

Hubert Selby, Jr.

“A little sleep and then a little wakefulness. Then a slipping to some soothing place in between.”

Hubert Selby, Jr.

“They had all they needed. They had the madness of pain.”

Hubert Selby, Jr.