891 Quotes by Henry Miller

I was polluting the bed with dreams.

Who wants to be a hundred? What’s the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.

No, we are never alone. But one has to live apart to know it for the truth.

It’s like saying to a drowning man: What a pity, what a pity! If you had only let me teach you how to swim! Everybody wants to right the world, nobody wants help his neighbor. They want to make a man of you without taking your body into consideration. It’s all cockeyed.

It’s the pleasure of picking up the brush and seeing what happens.

There are people who cannot resist the desire to get into a cage with wild beasts and be mangled.

To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money, the breath money, no least single object anywhere that is not money, money, money everywhere and still not enough, and then no money, or a little money or less money or more money, but money, always money, and if you have money or don’t have money it is the money that counts and money makes money, but what makes money make money?

Even if it doesn’t work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action.

Everything hinges on how you look at things.