Arthur Miller

The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#computer #down #elements #go #historical

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

— Arthur Miller

#birds #came #home #how #play

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#because #endlessly #fascinating #life #like

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#away #could #emotion #grab #i

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#asylum #country #drift #innocent #insane

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

— Arthur Miller

#action #any #begins #choice #choose

Without alienation, there can be no politics. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#politics #without

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

— Arthur Miller

#judge #judge me #look #me #sometimes

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

— Arthur Miller

#maggie #people #suicide #two #two people

Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#cellar #like #love #might #never