“Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“There’s something obscene in this love of the past which ends in breadlines and dugouts. Something obscene about this spiritual racket which… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I don’t care what happens. I love you and that’s what I wanted to say over the phone. That’s what I wanted… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap...it drives me nuts sometimes... I want… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The Buddhas and the Christs are born complete. They neither seek love nor give love, because they are love itself. But we… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“How we hate to admit that we would like nothing better than to be the slave! Slave and master at the same… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Don't expect me to be sane anymore. Don't let's be sensible. It was a marriage at Louveciennes—you can't dispute it. I came… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I reached out for something to attach myself to—and I found nothing. But in reaching out, in the effort to grasp, to attach myself,… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything.” — Henry Miller Copy Share
The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“(...)I decided to let myself drift with the tide, to make not the least resistance to fate, no matter in what form it presented… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“If it be knowledge or wisdom one is seeking, then one had better go direct to the source. And the source is not the… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“In the egocentric prism the helpless victim is walled in by the very light which he refracts. The ego dies in its own glass… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“When one spends what he has on himself, when one has a thoroughly good time with his own money, people are apt to say… — Henry Miller Copy Share
She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be running like… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“And no one sets about saving the world unless he has first experienced the miracle of personal salvation.” — Henry Miller Copy Share
“He looks about the room at the few sticks of furniture, at the dirty bed sheets and the wash basin with the dirty water… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“Since then, of course, I have discovered what every madman in Paris discovers sooner of later; that there are no ready made infernos for… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“Looking back upon my career, I see myself as a person capable of undertaking almost any task, any vocation. It was the monotony and… — Henry Miller Copy Share
