Quotes By Arthur Miller

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

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.

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.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

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 have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

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

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.

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