Henry Miller

"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."

"An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness."

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

"I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive."

"If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having."

"No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe."

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

"The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary."

"The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens."

"The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love."

"The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts."

"True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself."

"We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only."

"When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently."