Quotes By Arthur Miller

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.

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

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. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.

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

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.

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.

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.