The job is to ask questions — it always was — and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humil… - Arthur Miller

"The closer they come to transcending technique and the memorization of lines — the closer to really beginning to act, in short — the more Chinese they begin to seem. Happy now approaches Miss Forsythe to pick her up in the restaurant with a wonderful formality, his back straight, head high, his hand-gestures even more precise and formal, but with a comic undertone that ironically comes closer to conveying the original American idea of the scene than when he was trying to be physically sloppy and "relaxed" — that is, imitating an American. I think that by some unplanned magic we may end up creating something not quite American or Chinese but a pure style springing from the heart of the play itself — the play as a nonnational event, that is, a human circumstance."

"Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died."

In this age few tragedies are written. It has often been held that the lack is due to a paucity of heroes among us, or else that modern man has had the blood drawn out of his organs of belief by the skepticism of science, and the heroic attack on life cannot feed on an attitude of reserve and circumspection. For one reason or another, we are often held to be below tragedy — or tragedy above us.