quotes by James St. James

"Tease hair, not homos!"
— James St. James

"There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free fall forever inside their head. It's a spooky thing to be left alone inside an angry innerverse."
— James St. James

"If we're all going to hell in a handbasket, we might as well make it a party on the way down"
— James St. James (Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland)

"I give you bitter pills, in a sugar coating. The pills are harmless - the poison's in the sugar"
— James St. James (Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland)

"People die all around us all the time. Drop like flies. Overdose. Aids. Sometimes they kill themselves. People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again"
— James St. James (Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland)

"and so it came to pass that i was strapped to a gurney and covered in raw liver and slabs of beef that very quickly turned rancid under the bright spotlights. there exists a videotape somewhere that documents me being wheeled about the dance floor by two burly "orderlies," while i desperately search for a bathroom big enough to accommodate the stretcher so i can do a bump of cocaine. watching me retch from the decomposing meat, and simultaneously fiend for drugs, makes for an entertaining time, indeed.

when i told my mother the extremes i went to in order to make a living, she just shook her head and said, "now don't you wish you'd finished college, dear?"

mothers are so wise, sometimes."
— James St. James (Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland)

"And LO and BEHOLD, I was on BOTH the six AND eleven o’clock newscasts!
AND all the commercials, as well! (‘Day of the drag queen at one area high school, controversy at six!’)
And it must have been a slow night because I was the SECOND PIECE of the night! The granny suicide bomber got the lead. BITCH! But I managed to beat out the president’s pulled groin and day six of the Jessica Simpson chapped-lip crisis!

"
— James St. James (Freak Show)