Quotes by : Henry Miller

Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher,....

To move forward clinging to the past is like dragging a ball and chain. The prisoner is not the one who....

literature coming from the cold corpse of a whore is the last thing to be served in bed.

Living with a whore--even the best whore in the world--isn't a bed of roses.

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future,....

If this was the true self it was marvelous and what’s more it seemed never to change but always to....

The only peace the only security is in fulfillment.

No man ever puts down what he intended to say... words... are but crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain....

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act instead of react is because we are continually stifling....

What strikes me now as the most wonderful proof of my fitness, or unfitness, for the times is the fact....