Arthur Miller

“The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone...”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“All organisation is and must be grounded on the idea of exclusion and prohibition just as two objects cannot occupy the same space”

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

“Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.”

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

“Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.”

“The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal.”

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

“PROCTOR--he knows it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what i sign to is not the same!”

“PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead!”

“(Looking at the letter in his hand) Then what is this if it isn’t telling me? Sure, [Larry] was my son. But I think to him [the pilots killed] were all my sons. And I guess they were, I guess they were”

“John Proctor: I will fall like an ocean on that court!”

“More Weight-Giles Corey-”

“They tried to escape technology, to stay away from that and still have relationships with their fellow humans. Very difficult.”

“all paradox and enticing mystery, street-tough one moment, then lifted by a lyrical and poetic sensitivity”

“Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence.”

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

“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!”

“HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit”

“There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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. ”

“We have not many wills, but only one --it cannot be continuously compromised without atrophy setting in altogether.”

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

“The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.”

“Sex, sin, and the Devil were early linked.”

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

“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”

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

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

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