Arthur Miller

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

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.

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 bare ass 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.

I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.

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.

Data is a lot like humans: It is born. Matures. Gets married to other data, _x000D_ divorced. Gets old. One thing that it doesn't do is die. It has to be killed.

A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong--if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long.

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.

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.

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

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

...When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself.

Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.

He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!

Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died.

...an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.