Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line.
Arthur MillerThe American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.
Arthur MillerRise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success.
Arthur MillerAnd old Dave, he'd go up to his room, y'understand, put on his green velvet slippers - I'll never forget - and pick up his phone and call the buyers, and without leaving his room, at the age of eighty-four, he made his living. And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want.
Arthur Miller