Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success.
Arthur MillerThe culture of the United States has flooded the world. It's the inevitable result of a powerful culture, art. We've got an instinctive touch when it comes to the popular mind because we've had no aristocracy. It is a democratic country. And we know without knowing it, without bothering to understand it, how to reach ordinary people, sometimes with the most vulgar, worthless junk on the face of the earth, but we know how to do it [laughter].
Arthur MillerThe closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
Arthur MillerA political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.
Arthur MillerNevertheless, one learned very early that books had to be respected; they were all putative Bibles and to some small degree had a share in holiness.
Arthur MillerThe play is really a kind of nightmare. It ought to flow rapidly and effortlessly from one moment to another. In London, we had difficulty with the set, which required too much effort to move around. Having gotten the benefit of seeing it done once, I wanted to work on the script, to make it sharper and more pointed.
Arthur Miller