New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer. – Henry Miller
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. – Henry Miller
Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. – Henry Miller
Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil. – 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