Henry Miller

An artist is always alone if he is an artist. What the artist needs is loneliness.

We want to reproduce all those instruments which were prepared and used in America once upon a time.

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we’re here to explore new possibilities.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Blood banks are all closed; you can’t use others to keep you warm.

When you embark for strange places don’t leave any of yourself safely at the shore… Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

Failure is no accident.

I like to surprise myself.

I comfortable with everything – say whatever you want.

[To Robertson] I think you should move to California. Malibu is paradise. You can always change your mind. Why don’t you just let me put this together? I’ll get you a house in the Malibu Colony.

If emotional pain or problems have cropped up in your life, you must insist on getting closure. Closure means you don’t carry the problem or the pain. You address the issue, then you slam shut the book and put it away.

I choose you, again and again at the start and finish of every single day, no matter the season, no matter the age. I choose you to struggle and succeed with, to fight and wake up with, to love and grow old with. I choose you, knowing there are still trails we must travel, knowing there are mountains left to climb. I choose you to always be by my side.

Feelings are often born from the matrix of conditions beyond your control. Let them just pass through, like a cloud in the sky.

You are writing your children’s future with your answers.

Not everything I write will be a masterpiece; I know that. It is a process selecting words to convey feelings never meant to be spoken. So maybe I’ve been searching for what’s already been said and this is the finest way I can say it. I love you, in everything I am, I love you.