Arthur Miller

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.

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?

The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality.

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

If I see an ending, I can work backward.