Arthur Miller Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.