Hugh Knox states that he has devoted his life to literature. He was influenced by the early 20th century surrealists, as well as Isidore Ducasse and William Burroughs. He has always been fascinated by persons outside the accepted norms of society and spent his life travelling and keeping company with "the outcasts, the mad, the furious." He has lived in Paris, Prague, Barcelona, Mexico, San Francisco, Berkeley, and New York. He was imprisoned in France, and left Prague two hours before the Russian tanks rolled across the border. He has been shot and stabbed. "You cannot have real adventures", Knox says, "without acquiring a few wounds."


"I wanted to read a book that might have been written by Jonathan Swift on LSD, and that being impossible, I spent thirty years writing it myself."
- Hugh Knox