"Imagination is the voice of daring." -Henry Miller

"One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life." -Henry Miller

"A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold."

"There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy."

"It's the fire that counts." -Henry Miller

Lawrence Durrell in a letter to Henry Miller.

"To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in." -Henry Miller

"You only need to become more and more yourself, in life and on paper," -Henry Miller from a May 1937 letter to Lawrence Durrell, encouraging him to make his work cohesive with his true life and vice versa.

"I have found God, but he is insufficient." -Henry Miller

"Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves." Henry Miller

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

"Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war."
-Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer