Henry Miller

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

Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.

You don’t know what the hell you’re talking about! You’re crazy!

Courage is grace under pressure.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

When we are through, we shall have reproduced American life as lived; and that, I think is the best way of preserving at least a part of our history and tradition.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

To me, you’ll always be the rising suns, the sinking moons, and all the stars that come between the sound of rain and river stones, the warmth of my sheets, the ache in my bones.

Above all else, I would choose you. When there’s no more grand gestures, no more words to say, when everything around us begins to give way, when the sky grows dim and the colors fade, I will choose you.

When you make changes in your life, make sure you’re moving toward the things you want.

They ask me how I love you and I say in pages, in novels, in volumes. I love you like my favorite story, the one that I wake up to every day and watch unfold. And I don’t know how it ends, but I know your name is already written in the chapters of my life that I have yet to live.

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.