With this book in my hands, reading aloud to my friends, questioning them, explaining to them, I was made clearly to understand that I had no friends, that I was alone in the world. Because in not understanding the meaning of the words, neither I nor my friends, one thing became very clear and that was that there were ways of not understanding and that the difference between the non-understanding of one individual and the non-understanding of another created a world of terra firma even more solid than differences of understanding.
Henry MillerThe tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.
Henry MillerThe worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.
Henry MillerWe should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music.
Henry Miller