For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal.
Henry MillerWriting, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life indirectly, of acquiring a total rather than a partial view of the universe. The writer lives between the upper and lower worlds: he takes the path in order eventually to become the path himself.
Henry MillerI am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead.
Henry MillerBut you canโt put fight into a manโs guts if he hasnโt any fight in him. There are some of us so cowardly that you canโt ever make heroes of us, not even if you frighten us to death. We know too much, maybe. There are some of us who donโt live in the moment, who live a little ahead, or a little behind.
Henry Miller