457 Quotes by Arthur Miller

You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.

I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.

I am older than everyone I ever knew. All my dogs are dead. Half a dozen cats, parakeets... all gone.

Sometimes...it's better for a man to walk away. But if you can't walk away? I guess that's when it tough.

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it is so accidental. It's so much like life.

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

The jungle is dark but full of diamonds.

Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels are simply worthier than others. A beautiful woman can turn heads but real glamour has a deeper pull. Glamour is the power to rearrange people's emotions, which, in effect, is the power to control one's environment.

The world is an oyster, but you don't crack it open on a mattress.