Keith Miller Quotations

A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone.

But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.

The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.

I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.

I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn, and dusk, and unlike other trade the hours asleep are not time off.

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid.

I am too old to think.