True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself. – Henry Miller
The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over. – 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
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
As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body. – Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail, 1979