“The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The city grows like a cancer; I must grow like a sun. The city eats deeper and deeper into the red; it… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything… — 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
Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living openly one becomes a medium,… — 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… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
When I reflect that the task which the artist implicitly sets himself is to overthrow existing values, to make of the chaos… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order… — 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
