Arthur Miller Quotes
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And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. 'Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?
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I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
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I don't know a critic who penetrates the center of anything.
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I understand his longing for immortality … Willy's writing his name in a cake of ice on a hot day, but he wishes he were writing in stone.
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By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.
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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.
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I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.
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The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.
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He have his goodness now, God forbid I take it from him!
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I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.
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Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
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That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?
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I'm a fatalist. … I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a misunderstanding.
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Work a lifetime to pay off a house - You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.
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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house - in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.
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An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
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They don't need me in New York. I'm the New England man. I'm vital in New England.
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Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow.
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I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.
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You cut your life down for spite!
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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Isn't that - isn't that remarkable? Biff - he likes me!
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Sit down, Willy.
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When irrational terror takes to itself the fiat of moral goodness somebody has to die. … No man lives who has not got a panic button, and when it is pressed by the clean white hand of moral duty, a certain murderous train is set in motion.