Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint, statesman, warrior - hold us to the path of history. They keep us chained to the rock, that the vultures may eat out our hearts. It is the artist who has the courage to go against the crowd; he is the unrecognized "hero of our time" - and of all time.
Henry MillerEach man has his own way of being himself and of saying it so ultimately that he can't be denied.
Henry MillerWhat holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.
Henry MillerFor the moment I can think of nothingโ except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a forgotten world.
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 โ the evolution of this world which has died but which has not been buried.
Henry Miller