Instead of asking How much damage will the work in question bring about? why not ask How much good? How much joy? – Henry Miller
To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in. – Henry Miller
Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk. – 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
The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, theyre not the enemy. Theyre the people that hire you. Theyre the people that are going to give you a job. – Rush Limbaugh
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. – J. G. Ballard