New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer. – Henry Miller
The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life. – 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
California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life… its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character. – J.B. Priestley
Hollywood is the place to be for actors – and theres just a big rush when an Australian comes over just because theres less of them. I guess thats just how it is. Like if you pick a pink jellybean out of a jar of green ones itd be amazing, but if you pick a green one, no one will care. – Callan McAuliffe