Example moves the world more than doctrine.

Were there a Christian so faithful to his God as I was to her we would all be Jesus Christ today.

At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love―just enough to feed the birds.

Think only what is right there, what is right under your nose to do. It's such a simple thing - that's why people can't do it.

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.

Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.

I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.