“I had no time to make a world of my own. I had to stay fixed, like Atlas, my feet on the elephant's back, and the elephant on the tortoise's back. To inquire on what the tortoise stood would be… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I didn't dare to think of anything then except the "facts." To get beneath the facts I would have had to be an artist, and one doesn't become an artist overnight. First you have to be crushed, to have your… — 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
