Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.

Quote by Arthur Miller

Topics: Arthur Miller Quotes

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I...

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I...

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab...

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab...

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater...

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater...

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I...

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I...

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after...

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after...

You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and...

You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and...

He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son....

He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son....

A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!

A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.

All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that...

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that...

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon...

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon...

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of...

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of...

There is an open terror of the critics (in New York) and of losing fortunes...

There is an open terror of the critics (in New York) and of losing fortunes...

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures...

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures...

I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an...

I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an...

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

If I see an ending, I can work backward.