Henry Miller

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

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

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

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.