Over there you think of nothing but becoming President of the United States some day. Potentially every man is Presidential timber. Here… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Begin this moment, wherever you find yourself, and take no thought of the morrow. Look not to Russia, China, India, not to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The American white man (not to speak of the Indian, the Negro, the Mexican) hasn't a ghost of a chance. If he… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I am a free man―and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
But you can’t put fight into a man’s guts if he hasn’t any fight in him. There are some of us so… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
There are no "facts"- there is only the fact that man, every man everywhere in the world, is on his way to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Once I thought that to be human was the highest aim a man could have, but I see now that it was… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The only difference between the Adamic man and the man of today is that the one was born to Paradise and the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
You make me tremendously happy to hold me undivided - to let me be the artist, as it were, and yet not… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“All the men she's been with and now you, just you, and the barges going by, masts and hulls, the whole damned… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Tomorrow you may bring about the destruction of your world. Tomorrow you may sing in Paradise above the smoking ruins of your… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time. — 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
