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 humility.

Quote by Arthur Miller

Topics: Absence Quotes, Questioning Quotes

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New...

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New...

A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free...

A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free...

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...

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 number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer...

The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer...

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say...

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say...

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home...

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home...

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 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.

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

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

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....

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...

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was...

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was...

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....

My father was often angry when I was most like him.

My father was often angry when I was most like him.

My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he...

My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he...

You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order...

You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order...