Quotes by Arthur Miller

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds come home to roost.

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

The word now is like a bomb thrown through the window and it ticks.

You never do any good until you get into some trouble.

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

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.

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.

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.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

“There was nowhere I had to be tomorrow, yet something kept pushing me to hurry and make up lost time. But lost to what? Who finds time that is lost? Time is never lost, we give it away, dump it out, character is everything, and I had not wanted to withhold myself anymore, that was all.”

“It was in my twenties that I felt old, that was when time was an abrasive wheel grinding me down. But it was not so much death I feared as insignificance.”

“It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves”

“Science was reason’s triumph, we had been so pridefully taught, the defeat of the Beast. But what happened when the Beast learned science?”