Waiting Period Quotes

“Bodies need poison. Withdrawals without it. Toxin-free airs a killer.”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Waiting Period

“I have joined an ancient fraternity. I have killed a man.”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Waiting Period

“Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Help me. Please, help me. If you really exist, you skinny jew bastard, help me kill myself.”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Waiting Period

“What the hell is this? Station after station, talk, talk, talk about the devil and the liberal democrats, what??? They still looking for communists? I dont believe this shit. Give me an amen and thank you jesus...whats with these people? This whole world is one big trailer park. They hate everybody. If theyre not hanging 'gays' they are hanging 'feminists', oh thank god for an 'off' button. Krist, my heart is pounding. Where am I? This cant be the same country I spent my entire life in.”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Waiting Period

“The natives knew better than to screw around with Tarzan. He was one bad dude. Lions, rhinos, just him and his knife. Great penthouse and elevator. Wouldnt last long in Brooklyn. Busted for indecent exposure. Me Tarzan you Judge. That is absolutely correct, and you are going to do sixty days. Try dressing as Beau Brummel the next time. Next case!”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Waiting Period

“They came close. Oh they came close. Was all set to put a gun in my mouth and pull the trigger. But there was a computer glitch. Isnt that something? A stupid glitch and I had to wait a few days and then I saw the errors of my ways, saw so clearly that I was killing the wrong person. Its not me that needs killing, its them. Funny how things can change in the wink of an eye.”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Waiting Period

“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

“Thought I felt as good as I could this morning, yet I feel even better now. Does that mean theres no limit to how good you can feel? I guess. Within limits. Maybe you just feel better and better until you explode? Never heard of it. Always something kicks in. Then down the tubes. Never feel too good. Maybe thats craziness. Feel so good your mind explodes. Cant handle it. How come you can feel worse and worse? No matter how bad you feel you can always feel worse. A rotten arrangement.”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Waiting Period

“Cant fight City Hall. But maybe you can burn it down.”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Waiting Period

“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

“This darkness of being alive without being able to live is inhuman.”
― 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 hangdog look clung to Barnard tenaciously, eating its way, like leprosy, under his skin, through his muscles and tendons, seeking out pathways to eat its way through his body, into his bones and their very marrow, into his blood and slowly eat away his brain; and too, like a cancer starting in the innermost parts of his body, ravenous cells chewing and clawing their way through bone and muscle, tissue and tendon, biting, ripping, devouring but not killing, but rather savoring the delicious process of painful and agonizing destruction.”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Waiting Period