Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

I had no idea who I was when I started. I was frightened to death and had no natural performing skills.

I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and depth and flat and falling and rising was coming into being in my mind.

I am calm but on the outside, mostly. When I'm on a film set, the stress is so humongous that I'm dying inside - I'm extremely stressed, but I do try, and... well, I don't try. I think it's my natural reaction to not externalize things.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.