Quotations

"A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run."

— Dennis Miller, American comedian, born 1953

"You've got bad eating habits if you use a grocery cart in 7-Eleven."

— Dennis Miller, American comedian, born 1953

"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."

— Henry Miller, American writer, born 1891

"If there is anything that deserves to be called miraculous, is it not love? What other power, what other mysterious force is there which can invest life with such undeniable splendor? The miracle which everyone is permitted to experience sometime in his life, the miracle, which demands no intervention, no intercession, no supreme exertion of will, the miracle which is open to the fool and the coward as well as the hero and saint, is love. Born of an instant, it lives eternally."

— Henry Miller, American writer, born 1891

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

— Henry Miller, American writer, born 1891

"The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."

— Henry Miller, American writer, born 1891

"Night is longing, longing, longing, beyond all endurance."

— Henry Miller, American writer, born 1891

"Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.
What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."

— Henry Miller, American writer, born 1891

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

— Henry Miller, American writer, born 1891

"Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets."

— Henry Miller, American writer, born 1891

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

— Henry Miller, American writer, born 1891

"Instead of asking How much damage will the work in question bring about? why not ask How much good? How much joy?"

— Henry Miller, American writer, born 1891

"No question that German civilians knew what went on. Railway into Dachau camp runs past villa, with trains of dead or semi-dead deportees. I usually don’t take pictures of horrors. But don’t think that every town and every area isn’t rich with them. I hope Vogue will feel it can publish these pictures."

— Lee Miller, American photographer, born 1907

"I took some pictures of the place [Hitler’s residence] and I also got a good night’s sleep in Hitler’s bed. I even washed the dirt of Dachau in his tub."

— Lee Miller, American photographer, born 1907