To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events.
Henry RollinsYouth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.
Henry RollinsI don't have many friends so the phone doesn't ring and no one's asking me to go out and go dancing with them.
Henry RollinsSometimes I would get invited to a party or to go out to dinner by one of them and I would decline. Part of me wanted to go, but those kind of outings always made me feel even more alienated than usual. Hearing them talk made me feel lonely and hateful at the same time. Lonely because I didn't fit in, never did. When I was reminded, it hurt. And hateful because it reaffirmed what I already knew, that I was alone and on the outside.
Henry Rollins