For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has been crazy enough to put a … - Henry Miller

To be generous is to say Yes before the man even opens his mouth.

The man who is forever disturbed about the problems of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

I have been a little embarrassed always. But less so the last time. It will all disappear. You have such a delicious sense of humor — I adore that in you. I want always to see you laughing. It belongs to you. I have been thinking of places we ought to go together — little obscure places, here and there, in Paris. Just to say — here I went with Anais — here we ate or danced or got drunk together. Ah, to see you really drunk sometime, that would be a treat! I am almost afraid to suggest it — but Anais, when I think of how you press against me, how eagerly you open your legs and how wet you are, God, it drives me mad to think what you would be like when everything falls away.