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. - (Miller, Henry - Acceptance)

Actors die so loud. - (Miller, Henry - Acting and Actors)

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms. - (Miller, Henry - Ambition)

Actually we are a vulgar, pushing mob whose passions are easily mobilized by demagogues, newspaper men, religious quacks, agitators and such like. To call this a society of free peoples is blasphemous. What have we to offer the world besides the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment? - (Miller, Henry - America)

Perhaps I am still very much of an American. That is to say, na?ve, optimistic, gullible. In the eyes of a European, what am I but an American to the core, an American who exposes his Americanism like a sore. Like it or not, I am a product of this land of plenty, a believer in superabundance, a believer in miracles. - (Miller, Henry - America)

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots. - (Miller, Henry - America)

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. - (Miller, Henry - America)

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life. - (Miller, Henry - Arts and Artists)

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life. - (Miller, Henry - Arts and Artists)

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. - (Miller, Henry - Arts and Artists)

One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things. - (Miller, Henry - Attitude)

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. - (Miller, Henry - Awareness)

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs. - (Miller, Henry - Belief)

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. - (Miller, Henry - Body)

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race. - (Miller, Henry - Books - Classics)