The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
ARTHUR MILLERThe structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
ARTHUR MILLERA playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
ARTHUR MILLERDon’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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 MILLERIf I have any justification for having lived it’s simply, I’m nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There’s some value in that.
ARTHUR MILLERYou cannot catch a child’s spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
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 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 MILLERNever fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
ARTHUR MILLERCertainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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 MILLERIn the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.
ARTHUR MILLERBetrayal is the only truth that sticks.
ARTHUR MILLERMaybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
ARTHUR MILLERAll we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
ARTHUR MILLERLet you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
ARTHUR MILLER