Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

— Arthur Miller

Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the veils of illusion as it disappears.

— Arthur Miller

Great drama is great questions, or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.

— Arthur Miller

HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit

— Arthur Miller

...he'll come back. We all come back, Kate. These private little revolutions always die. The compromise is always made. In a peculiar way. Frank is right-- every man does have a star. The star of one's honesty. And you spend your life groping for it, but once it's out it never lights again. I don't think he went very far. He probably just wanted to be alone to watch his star go out.

— Arthur Miller

Here is all the invisible world, caught, defined, and calculated. In these books the Devil stands stripped of all his brute disguises. Here are all your familiar spirits-your incur and succubi; your witches that go by land, by air, and by sea; your wizards of the night and of the day. Have no fear now-we shall find him out, and I mean to crush him utterly if he has shown his face!

— Arthur Miller

I don't know what the hell I'm workin' for. Sometimes I sit in my apartment–all alone. And I think of the rent I'm paying. And it's crazy. But then, it's what I always wanted. My own apartment, a car, and plenty of women. And still, goddammit, I'm lonely.

— Arthur Miller

I know what's wrong with me - I could never stand still for death! Which you've got to do by a certain age, or be ridiculous - you've got to stand there nobly and serene, and let death run his tape on your arms and around your belly and up your crotch until he's got you fitted for that black suit. And I can't, I won't!... So I'm left with wrestling with this anachronistic energy which God has charged me with, and I will use it till the dirt is shoveled in my mouth! Life! Life! Fuck death and dying!

— Arthur Miller

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

— Arthur Miller

I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart! I never knew what pretence Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men! And now you bid me tear the light out of my eyes! I will not, I cannot! You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet!

— Arthur Miller