At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of loveโjust enough to feed the birds.
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 MillerThere is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books
Henry MillerI had no more need of God than He had of me, and if there were one, I often said to myself, I would meet Him calmly and spit in His face.
Henry MillerDay by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast.
Henry MillerLife, as we all know, is conflict, and man, being part of life, is himself an expression of conflict. If he recognizes the fact and accepts it, he is apt, despite the conflict, to know peace and to enjoy it. But to arrive at this end, which is only a beginning (for we havenโt begun to live yet!), a man has got to learn the doctrine of acceptance, that is, of unconditional surrender, which is love.
Henry Miller