Quotes from Arthur Miller

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

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.

Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!

Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.

I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.

The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.

I stopped in the middle of that building and I saw — the sky. I saw the things that I love in this world. The work and the food and time time to sit and smoke. And I looked at the pen and said to myself, what the hell am I grabbing this for? Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am! Why can't I say that, Willy?

I may think of you softly from time to time. But I'll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again.

Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.

You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.

The two most common elements in the world are hydrogen and stupidity.

It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves

If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.

You are pulling down heaven and raising up a whore

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

Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.

I don't say he's a great man. Willie Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. 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. He's not to be allowed to fall in his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person.

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.

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