"Today I think it's the ugliest, filthiest, shittiest city in the world"

"Now I know where I am... and who I am! Back in that old shit-hole, New York!"

Everything that comes out of Henry Miller's mouth in this video is pure gold. If you didn't know better, you might think that Miller was unsentimental about the past, but he was sentimental to a fault. This was the same guy who called himself a "patriot of the 9th Ward." He just loved to sling phrases like "Every bloody street I look down, I see nothing but misery, nothing but monsters," and New York was one of his favorite targets.

Watching this video makes me want to reread Sexus.