Quotes About Henry Miller

I am appalled by the potentialities of drama that are still contained in these feeble bodies.

Kafka's long nightmares were but a preparation for the actual horrors we were to experience even to a greater degree.

There was a purity about him, a blaze in his eyes, that bordered on the charismatic. I also had the sense that hanging out with him would be dangerous: not because he might prove mean, violent, dishonest, or crazier than anybody else I knew, but because he seemed both completely uncompromised and completely uncompromising. As Henry Miller said of Rimbaud, he was "like a man who discovered electricity but knew absolutely nothing about insulation.

New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer.

Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.

Henry Miller is a famous writer whose work has fallen out of fashion, but I strongly recommend that readers who don't know his work pick up a book and experience this writer's zealous, crazy, inventive, funny, sexy, often delirious prose.