A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit, with new values. Our world may have begun that way, but today it is caricature. Our world is a world of things. What we dread most, in the face of the impending debacle, is that we shall be obliged to give up our gewgaws, our gadgets, all the little comforts that have made us so uncomfortable. We are not peaceful souls; we are smug, timid, queasy and quaky.
Henry MillerIt is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
Henry MillerWhat is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in the cosmos.
Henry MillerThe full and joyful acceptance of the worst in oneself may be the only sure way of transforming it.
Henry Miller