O. Henry Quotes

You can still function as a living ruin.

You don't make me feel like you used to. That's why I'm leaving That's why people leave each other They come to their senses and get selfish again.

Always knowing you're going to die And until then knowing you've got to live.

He looked at her Something Turned cancerous He was in love.

Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.

A man came up to me the other day and said he hadn't had a bite in weeks. So you know what I did? I walked by him like he didn't even exist.

My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection.

It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.

Texas is as odd as it is vast.

I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don't think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own.

In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record.

Hating someone is giving them too much, just leave them alone.

For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed.

The scars will take me far, they always do.

Maybe I'm ego-tripping, but I don't find myself a particularly horrible person, so I don't think I need to hold back anything I think or feel.

Some music really does suck!

Black Sabbath - one of the world's universal language of music. I felt proud, for three or four minutes of my life combining my voice with Tony Iommi's guitar sound.

There's always going to be a need for activism; there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other.

To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events.

I'm disappointed by bands left and right, every day.

Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.

I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.

No matter how rough things can be at times, many Americans are optimistic and on the move.

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

All my big heroes are literary, writers.

Dinosaur Jr. in their live capacity are a band that put me in a state of such overwhelming rock that it often takes quite a while to come down.

Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.

I am afforded a bit of easy wonderment in relative comfort as to how humans have lasted so long. Climate- and geography-wise, the planet seems to have little use for us.

I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.

I wonder how Colin Powell sleeps at night. I would like to have a word with him because he lied. He lied. He lied to me. He lied to my face through the camera at the U.N.

I'm not artistic nor am I all that creative.

Motivation has always been a fascinating factor when considering a touring artist, especially when the years stack up. What keeps one out there year after year?

Sometimes when you meet a musician you are a fan of, and he or she isn't the friendliest person, you walk away from the experience wondering if you will ever be able to listen to their music again.

To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold, moist-palmed, mouth-breathing bummer.

Never once have I thought that Social Security would be something that would ever be available to me.

Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous.

We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic.

Lou Reed's music has been in the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades. He had a truly universal presence and was respected by musicians across all genres.

And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.

Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States.

The more I learn about Mr. Romney, the less there is to admire.

In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.

Even though I am not hungry when I get up, I try to eat to get me ready for the day. Within an hour of getting up.

Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop.

No child asks to get born, so when they are here, they should be shielded from any possible horror.

I am very ambitious in a way, in that I'm not trying to be the richest guy or whatever. I just really like my work.

While I disagree with our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, I have nothing but respect and admiration for the men and women deployed in these places.

All of the jobs have gone away to satisfy the stockholders, so that's where the economy has gone. These major multinational corporations do not see their futures in America.

If I could go to Kabul and not die, I would go back to Afghanistan as soon as I could. And, that was the most interesting place that I've been to.

There are religions and social and moral awareness in any society that gets passed immediately. Those human truths. All cultures address them.