H. T. Miller Quotes

Concussion? How the hell can they tell? They're *football* players, for chrissakes!

Homosexuals are entering the mainstream, because they're becoming as boring and as tedious as any other splinter group.

Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us laugh is a mystery - an involuntary response.

Dennis Kucinich's politics are more scrambled than Rod Steiger's dream journal.

The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.

Americans stick their nose where it doesn't belong more than Cyrano de Bergerac giving head.

Is global warming new? I don't know. When I was young I remember the sun being hot.

South African schoolchildren set a world record this week by creating the world's longest clothesline. Hey, what do South Africans wash their clothes with? Apar-Tide!

Jack Kerouac was cool because he had no idea he was.

Women don't like guys who are dangerous. Women just want us to think that because women are trying to kill us.

Jerry Falwell says that abortion and homosexuality are sins. Oh yeah? Well, so is gluttony, Jerry. So maybe you should think about dropping 50 pounds.

Everybody is full of crap. The coin of the realm is being full of crap. The best people - being full of crap are our leaders and our superstars.

I think the people can bash Catholics because they know Catholics won't kill them. Quite frankly, there's some religions out there, you bash and they're going to kill you.

When you're sharing a mud hole with a wildebeest derriere in sub-Saharan Africa, that's a living hell.

In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.

I could not have known then that everybody, every person, has to leave, has to change like seasons; they have to or they die. The seasons remind me that I must keep changing.

Nobody will listen to you unless they sense that you like them.

Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about?

You cannot be a Christian without being a mystic

Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

Most of us are waiting. We're waiting for something interesting to happen. And I think we're going to wait forever if we don't do something more interesting with our lives.

And when you find love, or when you are mature enough to understand it, the feeling you get is gratitude.

I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my process; I tend to be pretty secretive about what I'm working on.

Failure is not an option, so why talk about it?

I find that if somebody is writing and drawing a comic book, planning it to be a movie and a game at the same time tends to lead to a pretty lame job.

I realized that I was about to turn 30, and Batman was permanently 29. And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.

A gun is a liar's weapon

Global crude oil demand is increasing, particularly in places like China

The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human.

Imagination is the voice of the daring.

The history of the world is the history of the privileged few.

Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.

And the books you write. They're not you. They're not me sitting here, this Henry Miller. They belong to someone else. It's terrible. You can never rest.

I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is the only such realm.

I read to be taken out of myself, to become ecstatic.

The blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.

For a metaphysical treat stop at the Big Sur Inn, which is also a haven for stray cats and dogs. Life along the South Coast is just a bed of roses, with a few thorns and nettles interspersed.

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

In our home we have a rule: You can disagree with a man's position as much as you want - after you have been able to state it to his satisfaction.

Leaders should be the chief repenters.

Conflict begins at the moment of birth.

Money spent in complying with a regulation cannot be spent again on marketing or product research.

Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.

Humility is the cornerstone of leadership.

We need to bring personal responsibility back to the family!

There are truths, and there are legends touched with truth, and all can teach you something.

Homosexuality is the sexual plague of a monogamous society gone promiscuous. These societies that sow the winds of heterosexual freedom ironically reap the whirlwind of homosexual perversion.

Business is about profit, yes, and it is about more than profit. At its best, it is about expanding the possibilities of humanity.