Quotes by Henry Miller

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

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

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.

Develop an interest in life as you see it the 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.

The only thing we never get enough of is love and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

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

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

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

The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way.