Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Langs feeble imagination. – Henry Miller
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 mans front embraces the whole universe. – Henry Miller
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
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it? – Henry Miller
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself. – Henry Miller
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. – Henry Miller
Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature. – Henry Miller
Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. – Henry Miller
We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets – we remember only. – Henry Miller
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. – Henry Miller
The only thing we never get enough of is love and the only thing we never give enough of is love. – Henry Miller
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love. – Henry Miller
Develop an interest in life as you see it the people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. – Henry Miller
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens. – Henry Miller
Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. – Henry Miller
In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. – Henry Miller
No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance. – Henry Miller
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything. – Henry Miller
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. – Henry Miller
There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him. – Henry Miller
