Quotes by Arthur Miller

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

“If I see an ending, I can work backward.”

“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.”

“The theater is so endlessly fascinating because its so accidental. Its so much like life.”

“Can anyone remember love? Its like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.”

“I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though Id find you coming through some door.”

“I think its a mistake to ever look for hope outside of ones self.”

“Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.”

“The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.”

“An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted”

“Dont be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.”

“You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.”

“The word now is like a bomb thrown through the window, and it ticks”

“Dont take it on yourself. Forget now. Live.”

“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.”

“A man is not an orange. You cant eat the fruit and throw the peel away”

“Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.”

“All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.”

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

“Im the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.”