"Time presses and the primary thing seems to be to get out with a whole skin. If by miracle we escape the impending catastrophe I shall go back to Paris and make plans to come to America....I feel badly about leaving - it seems a bit cowardly - but I am no soldier and would croak the first day of pneumonia or something like that. And besides, I don't feel it's my quarrel. I think if I were the head of a government, I could patch it up - perhaps ignomiously, but I could reach a solution. Hitler is absolutely crazy, no doubt about it - but he should be dealt with that way and not as a responsible person. We may yet see something spectacular within the German nation - they must realize dimly that they are once again in a desparate hole - once again confronted by the whole world in arms. Maybe we'll carry on from Woodstock."
Henry Miller to James Cooney, Villa Seurat, France April, 1939
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