In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
~ Henry Miller
In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.
The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
