Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. – 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
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it? – Henry Miller
There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy. – Henry Miller
I wish I had coined the phrase tyranny of choice, but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong, and that you are wrong if you choose any of them. – Susan Orlean