Arthur Miller

I am older than everyone I ever knew. All my dogs are dead. Half a dozen cats, parakeets... all gone.

It 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?

He'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.

I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

If 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.

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.

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

In 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.

A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

The 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.

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

What 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.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

I 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.

You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.

Well, 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.

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.