#excerpts (I will never be consistent, so I won't put a number in front)

"If sometimes we encounter explosive pages, pages that wound and burn, that elicit groans, tears, and blasphemies, know that they are pages of a man on the ropes, a man whose only defense is words, and words are always stronger than the lie, the crushing weight of the world, stronger than all the wheels and props that the cowardly invent to shatter the miracle of personality. If a man ever dared to translate everything he has in his heart, to put down what is his true experience, what is truly truth, I believe that the world would be shattered, that it would crumble into pieces, and neither God, nor chance, nor will could ever gather the fragments, the atoms, the indestructible elements that made up the world."

Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer