“Time has to pass. But sometimes its so goddamn long. Sometimes it just seems to drag and drag and weigh a ton. And hang on you like a monkey. Like its going to suck the blood out of you. Or squeeze your guts out. And sometimes it flies. And is gone somewhere, somehow, before you know it was even here. As if time is only here to make you miserable. That's the only reason for time. To squeeze you. Crush you. To tie you up in knots and make you fucking miserable.”
“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.
“He flowed deeper and deeper into himself, wrapped in the comforting strength of hate.”
Hubert Selby, Jr.
“A little sleep and then a little wakefulness. Then a slipping to some soothing place in between.”
Hubert Selby, Jr.
