I get here, and I don't know what to do with myself. I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all… - Arthur Miller

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.

[On The Crucible] I was very moved by that play once again when the Royal Shakespeare Company did a production that toured the cathedrals of England. Then they took it to Poland and performed it in the cathedrals there, too. The actors said it changed their lives. Officials wept; they were speechless after the play, and everyone knew why. It was because they had to enforce the kind of repression the play was attacking. That made me prouder than anything I ever did in my life. The mission of the theater, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities.

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

Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.