Arthur Miller Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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.”

“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?”

“Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.”

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

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

“You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.”

“I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.”

“Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.”

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

“The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality.”