She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be running like mad through a field of stubble, one shoe one, one shoe off, a man named Corn Cob pursuing her hotly. Wherever she is I am standing in complete darkness; her absence blots me out.
Henry MillerI had learned to harness ignorance with presumption. I was ready to become an unacknowledged watercolorist.
Henry MillerThe moment one is on the side of life; peace and security drop out of consciousness. The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.
Henry MillerThe man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
Henry Miller