Quotes About Experience

And this is not a criticism of coolness: by and large, the musical component of rock isn't nearly as important as the iconography and the posturing and the idea of what we're supposed to be experiencing. If given the choice between hearing a great band and seeing a cool band, I'll take the latter every single time; this is why the Eagles suck.

The world happens as it happens, but we construct what we remember and what we forget. And people will eventually do that to us, too.

I rarely remember the names or faces of nonfictional people.

If you did not really care, any experience could be entertaining.

At some point, if you live long enough, it's probably impossible to avoid seeming crazy.

Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.

We'll never be as young as we are tonight.

It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have left.

You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

The joke is, we all have the same punchline.

By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.

Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.

How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?

Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.

Pretty much always. We need to tell the story of our life to someone.

I just don't want to die without a few scars.

Stanislavski was right, you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.

My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.

We just had a near-life experience

According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know.

The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact.

Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.

There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.