Like every writer, I am asked where my work originates, and if I knew I would go there more often to find… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
It was not really possible to understand oneself, let alone another human being. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Memory inevitably romanticizes, pressing reality to recede like pain. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“If you believe that life is worth living then your belief will create the fact.” — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
... so many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The world is always ending; the exact date depends on when you came into it. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
How to live had started out as an analytical problem of how to place himself so as to intercept the flow of… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
...When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
If a person measures his spiritual fulfillment in terms of cosmic visions, surpassing peace of mind, or ecstasy, then he is not likely to… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
“If you can fall in love again and again, if you can forgive your parents for the crime of bringing you into the world,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
“I know what's wrong with me - I could never stand still for death! Which you've got to do by a certain age, or… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return. — Arthur Miller Copy Share
“(Looking at the letter in his hand) Then what is this if it isn’t telling me? Sure, [Larry] was my son. But I think… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships. — Arthur Miller Copy Share
A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out. — Arthur Miller Copy Share
“When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile area, that all gods were useful and… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
