Quotes by Henry Miller

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

“Lifes wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.”

“Through endless night the earth whirls toward a creation unknown...”

“He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals”

“Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.”

“Whats a fuck when what I want is love?”