Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.

Imagination is the voice of the daring.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

And the books you write. They're not you. They're not me sitting here, this Henry Miller. They belong to someone else. It's terrible. You can never rest.

The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.

I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.

The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work of art.