891 Quotes by Henry Miller

Animate or inanimate, all bodies under the sun give expression to their vitality. Especially on a fine day in spring!

Previously, when I began to write this tale, I set out by saying that Mlle. Claude was a whore. She is a whore, of course, and I'm not trying to deny it, but what I say now is--if Mlle. Claude is a whore then what name shall I find for the other women I know?

What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.

Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant

In Europe one gets used to doing nothing. You sit on your ass and whine all day. You get contaminated. You rot.

Europe – medieval, grotesque, monstrous: a symphony in B-mol.

That’s the first thing that strikes anAmerican woman about Europe – that it’s unsanitary. Impossible forthem to conceive of a paradise without modern plumbing. If theyfind a bedbug they want to write a letter immediately to thechamber of commerce.

I am fucking you, Tania, so that you'll stay fucked.

[...] I know how to inflame a cunt. I shoot hot bolts into you, Tania. I make your ovaries incandescent.