Humorous Quotes attributed to Henry Miller
1891-1980, American Writer

Actors die so loud.

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet -- if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

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

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that He dared to imagine everything.

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

My books are the books that I am, the confused man, the negligent man, the reckless man, the lusty, obscene, boisterous, scrupulous, lying, diabolically truthful man that I am.

No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes.

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant.

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

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