Henry Miller interviewed by George Wickes (1962)
INTERVIEWER: Didn’t you say somewhere, “I am for obscenity and against pornography”?
MILLER: Well, it’s very simple. The obscene would be the forthright, and pornography would be the roundabout. I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it. … In other words, obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.
— The Paris Review (Art of Fiction No. 28)
via Melissa Gira Grant.
