It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

I don't think we should read for instruction but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

Paint what you like and die happy

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

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 blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.