"Oh, Henry, I want to know what you want to know. I want my life to match your life."

"And that's our task. Liberation. Freedom. Let's toast to Lawrence. Let's toast to our defects. Toast, to our friendsh…"

"I'd believe only in a god that understood how to dance. Isn't that something?"

"I've done the vilest things - the foulest things - but I've done them... superbly."

"I wanna be drunk. And make... you drunk. Because I'm intimidated by you. I need to feel free to say anything, and kno…"

"It's a distortion. Henry, Look at me! Look! You can't see me or anyone as they are! I wanted Dostoyevsky!"

"[Late at night in bed with Anaïs] I don't know why, I keep on thinking of this little Chinese restaurant that Henry a…"

"You fall in love with people's minds."

"Does she think she can love anything in you I haven't loved?"

"Fred Ward - Henry Miller"