"My pen knows what to do. I close my eyes and I see this girl who glows. A girl who radiates. When she smiles, she beams. She warms my heart. I open my eyes with a feeling of floating past all the garbage around me. I will emerge unscathed because I will not endeavor to hide myself from whatever is coming. Bring on the worst. I welcome it with open arms." - from Get In the Van, by Henry Rollins

"I would prefer not to have to watch a bunch of males crawl all over each other and scream at me. Just do your thing off in the corner so the girls can come up front and we can get real. Boys don't even move with the music. No matter what you play, they do the same thing. The girls move with the music--always. I watch their hips and they watch mine. These boys should go join the Marine Corps so they can rock out." - from Get In the Van, by Henry Rollins

"Yeah, he was burned out on women. Burned out on any kind of dealings with humans. They made him sick. He had become so cynical over the last few years that he had it in his mind that he would never meet anyone that would matter to him. Do you know what happened to that guy? He met this girl and she made him see that he was wrong. After he spent a short time with her, he felt all those old feelings come back. She brought him back to life." - from Black Coffee Blues by Henry Rollins

"When was the last time you wanted to say it all to the right person? To have it all come out right, to surprise yourself at how together you could be. When was the last time you ever met someone who made you want to give it all to them? I mean give yourself to them. Where you couldn't express yourself enough - like you wanted to cut off one of your arms to be understood. That's it - you would cut your head off to have someone understand you. You know how pointless that one is. You know how many times you've smashed yourself to bits on the rocks." - from Black Coffee Blues by Henry Rollins

"He was my hero so I watched him closely. Yeah, he said all the things that I wish I had said. The things I wished I had the guts to say. I knew it was all the truth, but damn. I couldn't just come out and say it like he did." - from Black Coffee Blues by Henry Rollins

"If there was a god, he wouldn't let a guy walk right up and shoot you in the face now would he? That's right, now you get the picture. Truth burns doesn't it?" - from Black Coffee Blues by Henry Rollins

"There's this girl I know, she sends me flowers and cards and all kinds of shit. Of course I throw them out immediately and think of all the things I could've done with the money she spent on all that garbage. After we fuck, she disappears into the bathroom. Minutes later she reappears with a damp washcloth and wipes my cock off. Isn't that nice? The Hallmark greeting card company should make a card for that one, with a nice one liner: You're so beautiful when you're wiping the juice off my spent cock." - from Black Coffee Blues by Henry Rollins

"I want to meet a woman that will make me stop and listen to what she has to say. I want a woman who will make my jaw drop in awe. A woman that has little time for me. One who does not throw herself at me. One who respects herself who has a sense of herself. Where is she?" - from Black Coffee Blues by Henry Rollins

"Know that humans are inherently weak and not good for much. That's why you don't want to have too many around you for too long. If they see that you are strong they will be attracted to you. Beware, for this is also always true about humans without exception: they will eventually attack what is strong and see it as their enemy. In their fear they display their need to bring what is seemingly above and beyond them down to their level." - from Solipsist by Henry Rollins

"I'm not homophobic. I'm just as interested in your sex life as I'm interested in staring at a bucket of dirt for thirty years. I'm falling asleep already. I bet it makes you mad that you're all the same to me. Straight. Gay. Bi. You'll all the same. Boring. Nineteen piercings in your cock? Like to get tied up and beaten by some woman in black leather? Zzzzzzzzzz." - from Solipsist by Henry Rollins

"Somewhere, someone isn't impressed by your looks. Not all men jump through the hoops of your fire. You're unbelievably boring to more people than you'll ever know." - from Solipsist by Henry Rollins

"It is no surprise to me that hardly anyone tells the truth about how they feel. The smart ones keep themselves to themselves for good reason. Why would you want to tell anyone anything that's dear to you? Even when you like them and want nothing more than to be closer than close to them? It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to." - from Solipsist by Henry Rollins

"My feelings for you shame me into silence. The truth of this and your name will never be revealed. It is you who has made me realize the failure of my life. The thought of you fills me with longing and at the same time, a burning humiliation that produces scar tissue and dead brain cells. Your existence mocks me and I am unable to confront this. You have no idea of any of this. None of this is your fault. It is completely with me. It is you who makes me see what I really am. I am weak and out of touch with myself." - from Solipsist by Henry Rollins

"Somewhere someone is thinking of you. Someone is calling you an angel. This person is using celestial colors to paint your image. Someone is making you into a vision so beautiful that it can only live in the mind. Someone is thinking of the way your breath escapes your lips when you are touched. How your eyes close and your jaw tightens with concentration as you give pleasure a home. These thoughts are saving a life somewhere right now. In some airless apartment on a dark, urine stained, whore lined street, someone is calling out to you silently and you are answering without even being there. So crystalline. So pure. Such life saving power when you smile. You will never know how you have cauterized my wounds. So sad that we will never touch. How it hurts me to know that I will never be able to give you everything I have." - from Solipsist by Henry Rollins

"To me you are more than a woman. You are a creature of beauty, a creation of a higher order. I will die knowing that no one will ever love you as I have loved you all these years. I will now attempt to say your name with my last breath." - from Solipsist by Henry Rollins

"I must tell you that I was always afraid of the fury with which I loved you. It overwhelmed me. I thought it beyond comprehension, therefore my silence." - from Solipsist by Henry Rollins

"They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have been waiting. I have been searching. I am a man under the moon, walking the streets of earth until dawn. There's got to be someone for me. It's not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone." - from Solipsist by Henry Rollins

"Thank you for touching me. Some of the only moments worth living were spent with you. Not you especially, the collective you." - from Solipsist by Henry Rollins

"If I was a woman these days, I'd be killing motherfuckers. My handgun would never cool and my hands would be covered in testicular blood. I would have a horrible reputation with a lot of men because I would be calling them on their weak bullshit left and right." - from Solipsist by Henry Rollins

"Do you see now that your self-righteousnes was nothing more than breeding and years of privilege? "You know, we are one nation under a god." Yes, you were right. An angry, crack slinging god who decorates with bullets and spent condoms. A blind god whose eyes are just like yours." - from Solipsist by Henry Rollins

"Basically, men are afraid of women and can't handle the fact that they came out of the same thing they spend the rest of their lives trying to get back into." - from Solipsist by Henry Rollins