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 MILLERI love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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 MILLERCertainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
ARTHUR MILLERThe 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 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 MILLERYou specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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 MILLERThe problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.
ARTHUR MILLERMaybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
ARTHUR MILLERIt is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?
ARTHUR MILLERWell, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
ARTHUR MILLERA playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
ARTHUR MILLERWhere choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
ARTHUR MILLERMan must shape his tools lest they shape him.
ARTHUR MILLER