Arthur Miller

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

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

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

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

A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.

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

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

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

Pray calm yourselves. I have eleven children, and I am twenty-six times a grandma, and I have seen them all through their silly seasons, and when it come on them they will run the Devil bowlegged keeping up with their mischief. I think she'll wake when she tires of it. A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.

cleave not to faith when faith brings blood." - Rev. John Hale

The train resembles the Soviet type and is quite comfortable, but all socialist structures I have ever encountered have toilets stemming from a single model engineered by the Orthodox Church in Tsarist Russia to ensure that man never be allowed to forget the corruption of the flesh.

Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the veils of illusion as it disappears.

An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted.

Mother: What more can we be?Chris: You can be better! Once and for all you can know there's a universe of people outside and you're responsible to it, and unless you know that you threw away your son because that's how he died.

Here is all the invisible world, caught, defined, and calculated. In these books the Devil stands stripped of all his brute disguises. Here are all your familiar spirits-your incubi and succubi; your witches that go by land, by air, and by sea; your wizards of the night and of the day. Have no fear now-we shall find him out and I mean to crush him utterly if he has shown his face!

A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from.

The only thing you've got in this world is what you can sell.