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

Quote by Arthur Miller

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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...

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.

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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....

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

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...

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 cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the...

I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the...

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...

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...

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

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...

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...

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

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?...

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...