Henry Miller

Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.

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.

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

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.