Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.

Quote by Arthur Miller

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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...

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...

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 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...

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?...

Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country...

Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country...

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...

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...

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.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

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...

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...

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...

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...

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks

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

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

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...

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

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...