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 soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.

When you meet the man [Brassai] you see at once that he is equipped with no ordinary eyes. And the sharpness of vision and depth of insight are revealed in Brassai's lifelong photographic exploration of Paris - its people, places, and things.

We should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music.

At Epidaurus, in the stillness, in the great peace that came over me, I heard the heart of the world beat. I know what the cure is: it is to give up, to relinquish, to surrender, so that our little hearts may beat in unison with the great heart of the world.

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 only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.