Top 89 Selby Quotes
#1. I've always been inspired by Genet, Henry Miller and Hubert Selby, Jr., who taught me that you've got to tell a bigger truth in whatever you're doing, but the truth is not popular.
Lydia Lunch
#2. Thus it is awkward to call motion-sickness a migraine attack, but we may very conveniently term it a migranoid reaction, and note, in support of its affinities, that a large minority (almost 50 per cent, according to Selby and Lance) of adult migraine sufferers experienced severe motion-sickness in
Oliver Sacks
#3. I think I am the most impressed with writing styles that defy category, like Kharms or Selby, Breton or Jarry, where you become as interested in the writer as much as the writing itself. It's all these things that make reading so appealing to me.
Henry Rollins
#4. This benign property of his prose is not, one hopes, to be attributed to the reason noticed by the eccentric du Garbandier, who said 'the beauty of reading a page of de Selby is that it leads one inescapably to the happy conviction that one is not, of all nincompoops, the greatest'.
Flann O'Brien
#5. If Carlos and I were books, he'd be a Nietzsche book, and I'd be a Hubert Selby book - totally different mindsets. But musically, it all fell right into place.
Sam Fogarino
#6. The thing is, all my heroes were junkies. Lenny Bruce, Keith Richards, William Burroughs, Miles Davis, Hubert Selby, Jr ... These guys were cool. They were committed. They would not have been caught dead doing an ALF episode.
Jerry Stahl
#7. The movie, if I recall, didn't have to do with the television show because there were concerns from everyone that they didn't want it to be like the TV show.
David Selby
#8. I guess we're kindred souls and that's why we can feel so close to each other.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#9. But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love ... someone to hold on to ... someone
Hubert Selby Jr.
#10. But I knew that someday I was going to die. And just before I died two things would happen; Number 1: I would regret my entire life. Number 2: I would want to live my life over again.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#11. Its hopeless. Thats why you cant be worried about the world. Theyll just do you in anyway. You cant depend on them because sooner or later theyll turn on you or just disappear and leave you there alone.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#12. The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing.
David Selby
#13. But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#15. When you write about the people you hate the most, do it with love.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#16. In Malta, the Wars of Religion reached their climax. If both sides believed that they saw Paradise in the bright sky above them, they had a close and very intimate knowledge of Hell.
Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford
#17. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Help me. Please, help me. If you really exist, you skinny jew bastard, help me kill myself.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#18. I never found it frustrating not speaking.
David Selby
#19. 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 in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#20. Remembering the treatment that had been accorded the Knights and soldiers of St. Elmo, the Maltese inhabitants of Senglea took no prisoners. Hence there arose the expression (used in Malta to this day) 'St. Elmo's pay' for any action in which no mercy is given.
Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford
#21. You want to build something what's been tore down, choose a woman. You want to tear something down, choose a man.
Adrian Selby
#22. They luxuriated in the feeling of deep and all pervading satisfaction, a feeling of knowing absolutely that all was well with the world and them and that the world was not only their oyster it was also their linguine with clam sauce. Not only were all things possible, but all things were theirs.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#23. I have rituals for cleaning out resentments, disappointments, heartbreak, depression and for work. One of the things I do is go over old stuff if I have been unable to write for a while.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#24. A guy needs something to give his life a reason or what's the point of living?
Hubert Selby Jr.
#26. And it was so special, and to tell you the truth that's how I feel about the whole thing, I mean when I meet someone that has watched the show, and it has brought such joy to them, it just makes you feel so good.
David Selby
#27. 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 it will get better with time and time just seems to stand still and laugh at you and your pain.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#28. No matter how beautiful the outside may be, the inside still has feelings and needs that just words don't fulfill.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#29. I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal.
David Selby
#30. Death by a blow or just by the fall?" asked Detective Zach, who was standing beside me at the accident site. "Do you have maybe an X-ray machine with you?" I replied angrily. "After all, I would be grateful if I could have your finding today," said Zach.
Scott Andrew Selby
#31. One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story.
David Selby
#32. And yet there was not a definable thought in his mind. Only a terrifying effort to get from one side of a match box to another.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#33. Thats why you cant be worried about the world. theyll just do you in anyway. you can't depend on them because sooner or later theyll turn on you or just disapear and leave you there alone.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#34. When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did.
David Selby
#35. For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#36. He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his power to control or even at this point in time comprehend.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#37. Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.
David Selby
#38. And the night was comfortably warm as the soft filtered light continued to push the darkness into the shadows as they held each other and kissed and pushed each others darkness into the corner, believing in each others light, each others dream.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#39. I need more than the streets. I don't want to be a floating crap game all my life. I want to be something ... anything.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#40. Writing is a lonely are at times, we spend so much of our time locked in a room and never know if we are reaching anyone ...
Hubert Selby Jr.
#41. I suspect there will never be a requiem for a dream, simply because it will destroy us before we have the opportunity to mourn it's passing.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#42. Self-sabotage is when we say we want something and then go about making sure it doesn't happen.
Alyce Cornyn-Selby
#43. I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had some idea where they wanted it to go.
David Selby
#44. A perfect method of adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.
Alyce Cornyn-Selby
#45. Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage.
Alyce Cornyn-Selby
#46. I've always felt alienated. I realized that I've been terrified my entire life. So I can identify that fear which drives so many of the people that I write about.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#47. an event of such prodigious proportions and importance that it infused her with a new will to live and materialized a dream that brightened her days and soothed her lonely nights.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#48. But I had no idea that they were going to pull the plug so quickly.
David Selby
#49. The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one.
David Selby
#50. The bodies went back in the doors and bars and the heads in the windows. The cops drove away and Freddy and the guys went back into the Greeks and the street was quiet, just the sound of a tug and an occasional car; and even the blood couldn't be seen from a few feet away.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#51. That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done.
David Selby
#52. Writing, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#53. All I could think of was we were about to start filming for the last final weeks of the TV show and here I am in the hospital, so I missed the final weeks, and a couple days later, sore stomach and all I got on the horse we started filming.
David Selby
#54. It was a nice night. A pleasant evening. There seemed to be stars somewhere and it was easy to avoid stepping in the garbage and dog shit on the streets. A truly beautiful night. Tony
Hubert Selby Jr.
#55. I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.
David Selby
#56. Everything about it was wrong. Thats why it worked so good.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#57. Right right, because up to that point I had not been a viewer, and I didn't know alot about the show, it was all new to me and the cast members were wonderful!
David Selby
#58. There was a problem and that was that. Why didnt make a fiddlers fuck.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#59. An extraordinary writer ... It is the vastness of Nick Tosches' heart that makes it possible to reveal the darkness.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#62. There are a lot of people in this country who really like my writing. And a lot of writers respect me. But the so-called establishment? They hate me.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#63. We would change out of costume, then we would read the next days script.
David Selby
#64. And I haven't met too many actors along the way that haven't told me how much the show has meant to them. It's one of the reasons they say they are doing what they're doing, today.
David Selby
#65. I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.
David Selby
#66. It's always the same
you get used to one thing, then it changes. Get used to another, and that changes. Over and over. Always the same.
O well, the hell with it. It's not important anyway.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#67. I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC.
David Selby
#68. The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are.
David Selby
#69. Usually the space was dotted with people getting high, getting higher, or wondering why they werent high yet.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#70. When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing.
David Selby
#71. All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#72. We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.
David Selby
#73. our spiritual aim is not to retreat once or twice a day for meditation, but to learn how to live every moment of our lives in touch with our spiritual core.
John Selby
#74. It seems to me that we all have a dream of our own, our own personal vision, our own individual way of giving, but for many reasons we are afraid to pursue it, or to even recognize and accept its existence. But to deny our vision is to sell our soul.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#75. I started to die 36 hours before I was born, so dying was a way of life for me.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#76. Bodies need poison. Withdrawals without it. Toxin-free airs a killer.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#77. When I was younger I decided I'd hop on the train to New York.
David Selby
#78. The responsibility of the artist is to transcend the human ego.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#79. However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#80. 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 to come face to face with that demon that we face the angel.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#81. And he just sat back and stared at the tube, almost interested in what was happening, trying to find the ability to believe in that lie so he could believe the one within.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#82. I guess it could be said that the inspiration for 'Requiem for a Dream' is watching the American dream not only destroy so many lives in the U.S., but infect the rest of the world with its obsession with getting more, ignoring the deadly effect that has on the planet.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#83. My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#84. This book is dedicated, with love, to Bobby, who has found the only pound of pure- Faith in a Loving God.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#85. One of the things I have become aware of through the years is how much I love the people I write about.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#86. Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#87. I sit, I read, I listen to music, I go or a walk, I ride to Prospect Park and sit under the Willow Tree, I remember, I forget, I look at pictures, I do, I do, I do ... or I don't, but its peaceful ... only me ... no worries.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#89. You know ... the wonderful thing about Dark Shadows, the thing about going and looking back at it. It was so sucsessful at creating its own world.
David Selby
