Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. He broke with existing literary forms and developed a new type of semi-autobiographical novel that blended character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, stream of consciousness, explicit language, sex, surrealist free association,...
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
—Shozan Jack Haubner in Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk