The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet…

Quote by Arthur Miller

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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you...

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you...

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without...

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without...

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...

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...

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....

All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.

All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.

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...

If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of...

If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of...

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

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.

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum?...

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum?...

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...

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...

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 love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders...

The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders...

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to...

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to...

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find...

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find...

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...

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...