A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“On the day the world is blown up, the playwright whose show opened the night before will be leafing past the news… — 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
