Arthur Miller Quotes

You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away — a man is not a piece of fruit.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Personality always wins the day.

I don't say he's a great man. Willy Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall into his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must be finally paid to such a person.

I'm very well liked in Hartford. You know, the trouble is, Linda, people don't seem to take to me.

I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life.

Why must everybody like you?

I simply asked him if he was making any money. Is that a criticism?

They don't need me in New York. I'm the New England man. I'm vital in New England.

I don't know a critic who penetrates the center of anything.

I'm a fatalist. … I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a misunderstanding.

I see your point, but can you name one classical Greek or Elizabethean shoemaker?

Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the state has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied.

That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?

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