Top 40 Quotes by Arthur Miller

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

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

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

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.

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

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

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

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

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