Henry Rollins Quotes
Go without a coat when it's cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat, get down to the lean tissue and see what it's all about. The only time you define your character is when you go without. In times of hardship, you find out what you're made of and what you're capable of. If you're never tested, you'll never define you character.
Quotes to Explore
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A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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My characters hope for better lives.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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With Donald Trump as president and Republicans in control of Congress, our healthcare is under attack.
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I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
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I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.
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The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.
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I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.
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I don't believe in God.
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I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.
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I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.
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The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
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There's nothing good about divorce.
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If you are a professional, the speed with which you react to a potential problem separates the men from the boys.
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I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.
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You're afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the resposibility that begins in dreams. But you have to sleep and dreams are a part of sleep. When you're awake you can suppress imagination but you can't supress dreams.
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If you let people loose in a landscape and tell them to choose a house site, half of them will go sit on the ridges where they'll die in the next fire, or where you can't get water to them. Or they'll sit in all the dam sites. Or they'll sit in all the places that will perish in the next big wind.
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In most good stories, it is the character's personality that creates the action of the story. If you start with real personality, a real character, then something is bound to happen.
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Go without a coat when it's cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat, get down to the lean tissue and see what it's all about. The only time you define your character is when you go without. In times of hardship, you find out what you're made of and what you're capable of. If you're never tested, you'll never define you character.
