A biography for Arthur Millerhasn’t been written yet.
“אל לנו לרוץ אחר נפשו של ילד כדי לזכות באהבתו.”
“ההצלחה, במקום לשחררנו הופכת לסגנון חיינו.”
“Without alienation, there can be no politics.”
“Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.”
“Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.”
“I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.”
“The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.”
“If I see an ending, I can work backward.”
“...he'll come back. We all come back, kate. These private little revolutions always die. The compromise is always made. In a peculiar way. Frank is right-- every man does have a star. The star of one's honesty. And you spend your life groping for it, but once it's out it never lights again. I don't think he went very far. He probably just wanted to be alone to watch his star go out.”
“I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.”
“Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.”
“To admit what you see endangers principles.”
“Now, as the weeks passed, there was a future, there was a trouble that would not go away.”
“It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?”
“Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.”
“I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.”
“HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit”
“The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.”
“Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.”
“What victory would the Devil have to win a soul already bad? It is the best the Devil wants, and who is better than the minister." - Rev. John Hale”