Arthur Miller

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. ”

The 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. ”

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less. ”

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money. ”

Without alienation, there can be no politics. ”

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back. ”

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

Can 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. ”

You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return. ”

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes. ”