Arthur Miller quotes

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life. (Arthur Miller)
An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
Arthur Miller
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Arthur Miller
Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
Arthur Miller
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
Arthur Miller
I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.
Arthur Miller
The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
Arthur Miller
A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.
Arthur Miller
You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
Arthur Miller
I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.
Arthur Miller
Without alienation, there can be no politics. (Arthur Miller)
If I see an ending, I can work backward.
Arthur Miller
I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.
Arthur Miller
You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
Arthur Miller
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
Arthur Miller
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
Arthur Miller
The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
Arthur Miller
I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
Arthur Miller
I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.
Arthur Miller
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
Arthur Miller
I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act. (Arthur Miller)
He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.
Arthur Miller
You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.
Arthur Miller
I don't know a critic who penetrates the center of anything.
Arthur Miller
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
Arthur Miller