Arthur Miller

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. ”

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. ”

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

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life. ”

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action? ”

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

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. ”

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value. ”

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. ”