Quotes from Al Goldstein

For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

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.

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.

If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.

The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks. We don't believe in authoritarianism. Pornography thus becomes a way of defiling Christian culture and, as it penetrates to the very heart of the American mainstream (and is no doubt consumed by those very same WASPs), its subversive character becomes more charged.

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.

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.

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal

I'm a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

Married life is an existence with bars around it.

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 love going to the factories of La Plata, or Little Havana and seeing them roll cigars. I get excited. To me it is more beautiful than a topless club

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.

Our stock in trade is raw, flailing sex.

I refuse to be silenced.

For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.

A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.

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.

In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.