Henry Miller

"Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am."

"Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."

"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."

"Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is."

"The frantic desire to Live, to live at any cost, is not a result of the life rhythm in us, but of the death rhythm."

"We're creators by permission, by grace as it were. No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument that registers something already existent, something which belongs to the whole w…"

"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

"I've spoken many times about the Japanese woman. I've praised her again and again. But I have to tell you that I think the Japanese man is the worst. The women are such delicate creatures and they're …"