If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I'd have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve... If I was gay, at this stage of the game?age 37, aging alternative icon?I'd be taking out ads.
Henry RollinsLife is a hurdle and you'll never clear it. Death is the end of the ride and you fear it.
Henry RollinsWe all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
Henry RollinsI always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.
Henry RollinsNietzsche, who you don't spend too much time with after the age of seventeen, did have that one great line about "he who stares into the abyss must know that the abyss also stares into him" and I never really understood that until my friend got killed and you really get your head around the idea of what horror means. It's a truly awful thing, to really, kind of have that understanding of things and when you really peer into that.
Henry Rollins