"I was a 'worker' myself right up to my thirty-third year. It was in
this early period that I did most of my reading. I read under difficult
conditions, always. I remember getting the sack once when I was caught
reading Nietzsche instead of editing the mail order catalogue, which was
then my job. How lucky I was to have been fired, when I think of it
now. Was not Nietzsche vastly more important in my life than a knowledge
of the mail order business?"
Henry Miller, The Books in My Life.
