26 Quotes by John Rechy

It's possible to hate the filthy world and still love it with an abstract pitying love.

No, I did not tell him about the raids on gay bars; cops invading private homes to arrest men having sex, the sexual act being illegal; entrapment, lying, aroused cops, years-long prison terms, suicides, violence.

I suppose you could say that Paul is a … hustler? His rich wife Corina paid him grandly when they divorced, wouldn’t you say?”“That’s called alimony,” I laughed.

Because it’s getting to be the blue hour, and that’s the time when everything is revealed.

Writing is hustling of another kind.

I’m Mexican-American, but for a long time I was pushed out of any references to Mexican-American writers. It was easier to come out as a gay man than it was to come out as a Mexican-American.

Just the absence of loneliness. That’s love enough.

Maybe I could love you. But I wont. The grinding streets awaited me.

Southern California, which is shaped somewhat like a coffin, is a giant sanatorium with flowers where people come to be cured of life itself in whatever way... This is the last stop before the sun gives up and sinks into the black, black ocean, and night – usually starless here – comes down.