Quotes by Al Goldstein

• You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do.
• When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don't feel very good.
• I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.
• Our stock in trade is raw, flailing sex.
• Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.
• Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.
• Married life is an existence with bars around it.
• Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.
• In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.
• I'm a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that.
• To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death.
• I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away.
• For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.
• Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged.
• Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.
• Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
• So, if anatomy is destiny then testosterone is doom.
• The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.
• The true success is the person who invented himself.
• Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.
• I refuse to be silenced.