The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.
Henry MillerI am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.
Henry MillerWhen into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
Henry MillerThe poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work of art.
Henry MillerHow different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.
Henry MillerFor a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has been crazy enough to put a bomb up the asshole of creation and set it off. The world is rotting away, dying piecemeal. But it needs the coup de grace, it needs to be blown to smithereens. Not one of us is intact, and yet we have in us all the continents and the seas between the continents and the birds of the air. We are going to put it down ― the evolution of this world which has died but which has not been buried.
Henry Miller