The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean-when boredom seems the very stuff of life.
Henry MillerNew York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer.
Henry MillerWe must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Lose yourself in it, and you are free.
Henry MillerWhat does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
Henry Miller