Henry Miller

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

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.

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

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.