Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
ARTHUR MILLERDon’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
ARTHUR MILLERNever fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
ARTHUR MILLERThe 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 MILLERA suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
ARTHUR MILLERWhat is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.
ARTHUR MILLERI love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
ARTHUR MILLERI cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I’d find you coming through some door.
ARTHUR MILLERThe number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality.
ARTHUR MILLERWithout alienation, there can be no politics.
ARTHUR MILLERHe 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 MILLERI think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
ARTHUR MILLERI have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn’t very difficult.
ARTHUR MILLERLet you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
ARTHUR MILLERA good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
ARTHUR MILLERBetrayal is the only truth that sticks.
ARTHUR MILLERA child’s spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
ARTHUR MILLER