We live at the edge of the miraculous.
From Henry Miller
We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.
Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.
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.
I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.
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