The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over. Henry Miller Read Quote
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it? Henry Miller Read Quote
Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. Henry Miller Read Quote
It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir. Henry Miller Read Quote
No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man’s front embraces the whole universe. Henry Miller Read Quote
The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon. Henry Miller Read Quote
The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death. Henry Miller Read Quote
When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently. Henry Miller Read Quote
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane. Henry Miller Read Quote