The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order. - Henry Miller

America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social liability. A corn-fed hog enjoys a better life than a creative writer, painter or musician. To be a rabbit is better still.

I used to think then that all the tragic events of life were written down in books and that what went on outside was just diluted crap.

I had to learn, as I soon did, that one must give up everything and not do anything else but write, that one must write and write and write.