When I think of New York I have a very different feeling. New York makes even a rich man feel his unimportance.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
A year ago, six months ago, I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am. Everything… — 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
“It may be that we are doomed, that there is no hope for us, any of us, but if that is so… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The world is a cancer eating itself away... I am think that when the great silence descends upon all and everywhere music… — 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
“And inevitably there always crept into our discussions the figure of Whitman, that one lone figure which America has produced in the… — 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