The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Henry MillerAt the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of loveโjust enough to feed the birds.
Henry MillerDay by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast.
Henry MillerExample 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 MillerThose who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middle-class men and woman who are stuck in their comfortable grooves and imagine that the status quo will least forever or else are so frightened it won't, that they have retreated into their mental bomb shelters to wait it out.
Henry Miller