“He fought despairingly to go deeper into the blackness of a sleep, any sleep, even the sleep of death or some form of non-existence, but even with the loss of consciousness he dreamt he was awake, lying on the bed trying desperately to sleep. If he could find some way to prove that time had passed, no matter how short that time, he could tell himself that he had slept and perhaps then, just perhaps, he would feel rested.”
“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.
