Arthur Miller

Maybe all one can do is hope to make one day better than the next.

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.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

The commonest form of death among elderly people is the fatal accident.

You cannot eat the cake and have it.

Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.

The theater is a place where you can say things that you can't say anywhere else.

I regard the theater as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

America is a land of wonders and contradictions.

The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

A politician is a man who will double-cross the man who double-crossed him first.

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is closest to complete silence.

I am convinced that the responsibility for a writer's choices resides in the writer alone.

Tragedy enlightens—and it must, in that it points the heroic finger at the enemy of man's freedom.

In this world the only thing one can be sure of is that one will be betrayed.

The great terror of our time is the fear of being abandoned.

Society is always trying in one way or another to grind us down to a single flat surface.

I made the first piece of jewelry when I was 13 years old.