Henry Miller Quotes

An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument.

How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.

Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; close up they are apt to appear ugly and malicious. More than anything they need to be surrounded with sufficient space―space even more than time.

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.

There is nothing in itself which is wrong or evil not even murder.

A world without hope, but no despair

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.