The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

— Arthur Miller

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

— Arthur Miller

The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can’t get out of within.

— Arthur Miller

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

— Arthur Miller

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.

— Arthur Miller

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

— Arthur Miller

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

— Arthur Miller

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

— Arthur Miller

The train resembles the Soviet type and is quite comfortable, but all socialist structures I have ever encountered have toilets stemming from a single model engineered by the Orthodox Church in Tsarist Russia to ensure that man never be allowed to forget the corruption of the flesh.

— Arthur Miller

The word "now" is like a bomb thrown through the window and it ticks.

— Arthur Miller