A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.
Arthur MillerThe American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.
Arthur MillerCertainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
Arthur MillerPathos truly is the mode for the pessimist. But tragedy requires a nicer balance between what is possible and what is impossible. And it is curious, although edifying, that the plays we revere, century after century, are the tragedies. In them, and in them alone, lies the belief-optimistic, if you will, in the perfectibility of man.
Arthur Miller