Keith Scheessele

“That efficient monstrosity of attrition calculated on the fact that if people are continually turned down eventually they lack the energy to continue to try and get what is rightfully theirs, rights that were established by the Congress of the United States and aborted by slime-balls like you.”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Waiting Period

“They dont tell you what a horror story life is. How futile. Meaningless. Make money. God, nothings easier than making money. Then what? It crushes you. Life just gets heavier and heavier and envelopes you in its tentacles until it has squeezed all life from you but you dont die.”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Waiting Period

“The quickest way for a modern Japanese woman to gain the love of a man is to become corpse-like. The kind of men who want those women are dead themselves. Indeed, it’s because they’re dead that they’re so terrified of anyone with a sense of life about them.”
― Asako Yuzuki, Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder

“A day almost indistinguishable from the previous one, different only as each day is always new, the pain new yet old and endless.”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Waiting Period