A 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 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 MILLERIf I see an ending, I can work backward.
ARTHUR MILLERHe’s not the finest character that ever lived. But he’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
ARTHUR MILLERLet you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
ARTHUR MILLERI love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
ARTHUR MILLERI think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
ARTHUR MILLERMaybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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 MILLERWithout alienation, there can be no politics.
ARTHUR MILLERI 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 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 MILLERCan anyone remember love? It’s like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
ARTHUR MILLERCertainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
ARTHUR MILLERI know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
ARTHUR MILLERThe closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
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 MILLER