Henry Miller Quotes from Black Spring

"What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.": Henry Miller, Black Spring (1936)
"For me the book is the man and my book is the man I am, the confused man, the negligent man, the reckless man, the lusty, obscene, boisterous, thoughtful, scrupulous, lying, diabolically truthful man that I am.": Henry Miller, Black Spring (1936)

"I am not an atomizer from which you can squeeze a thin spray of hope.": Henry Miller, Black Spring (1936)
"To relieve a full bladder is one of the great human joys.": Henry Miller, Black Spring (1936)
"In the past every member of our family did something with his hands. I 'm the first idle son of a bitch with a glib tongue and a bad heart.": Henry Miller, Black Spring (1936)
"Of a night when there is no longer a name for things I walk to the dead end of the street and, like a man who has come to the end of his tether, I jump the precipice which divides the living from the dead.": Henry Miller, Black Spring (1936)
"There isn't a thing in the world America won't do for you if you ask for it like a man. You can sit in the electric chair and while the juice is being turned on you can read about your own execution; you can look at a picture of yourself sitting in the electric chair while you are waiting to be executed.": Henry Miller, Black Spring (1936)
"In the early evening, when death rattles the spine, the crowd moves compact, elbow to elbow, each member of the great herd driven by loneliness; breast to breast towards the wall of self, frustrate, isolate, sardine upon sardine, all seeking the universal can-opener.": Henry Miller, Black Spring (1936)