I'm an egotist, but I'm not selfish. There's a difference. I'm a neurotic, I guess. I can't stop thinking about myself. It… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
As far as history goes I am dead. If there is something beyond I shall have to bounce back. I have found… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
We're creators by permission, by grace as it were. No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
You can look at things all your life and not see them really. This ‘seeing’ is, in a way, a ‘not seeing,’… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Perhaps I have not lined his portrait too clearly. But if he exists, if only for the reason that I have imagined… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I took care of my wheel as one would look after a Rolls Royce. If it needed repairs I always brought it… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If you are well off and can afford to spend ten or twenty-five dollars a day to hire some patient soul to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
'Life', said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I had to learn, as I soon did, that one must give up everything and not do anything else but write, that… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If any man dared to translate all that is in his heart, to put down what is really his experience, what is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it. — 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 Image
“I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
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 Image
“(...)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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“And no one sets about saving the world unless he has first experienced the miracle of personal salvation.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“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 Image
