Quotes from Arthur Miller

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!

an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.

Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are honest and simple and don't lay on complications that aren't necessary.

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.

most of the time we settle for half and i like it better, even as i know how wrong he was and his death useless, i tremble for i confess that something peversley pure calls to me from his memory

It is time that we, who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place it can possibly lead in our time-the heart and spirit of the average man.

You can quicker get back a million dollars that was stolen than a word that you gave away.

I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An awful lot of people feel that they're treading water -- that if they vanished in smoke, it wouldn't mean anything at all in this world. And that's a despairing and destructive feeling. It'll kill you.

If a person measures his spiritual fulfillment in terms of cosmic visions, surpassing peace of mind, or ecstasy, then he is not likely to know much spiritual fulfillment. If, however, he measures it in terms of enjoying a sunrise, being warmed by a child's smile, or being able to help someone have a better day, then he is likely to know much spiritual fulfillment.

Be loving to him. Because he's only a little boat looking for a harbor.

Pop, I'm nothing! I'm nothing, Pop. Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it any more. I'm just what I am, that's all.

Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now.

Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down! - Abigail

If you believe that life is worth living then your belief will create the fact.

After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.

A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.

I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.

The only thing you've got in this world is what you can sell.

Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?

He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!

See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals...

I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you comin' through the door.

A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.

Sex, sin, and the Devil were early linked.