457 Quotes by Arthur Miller

Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there’s no predicting what to come up with next.

We have not many wills, but only one – it cannot be continuously compromised without atrophy setting in altogether.

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

When one rises above the individual villainy displayed, one can only pity them all, just as we shall be pitied some day.

There are certain people, the sicker they get the longer they live.

It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family’s little universe.

How can they whip cheese?

I could tell you things about Louis that wouldn’t make you wave at him no more.

If she is innocent! Why do you never wonder if Parris be innocent, or Abigail? Is the accuser always holy now? Were they born this morning as clean as God’s fingers? I’ll tell you what’s walking Salem – vengeance is walking Salem. We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!