Americans don't speak foreign languages, by and large. Their interest in anything beyond the borders of the country is limited. A European of any cultivation has to speak a couple of languages; he inevitably without being very thoughtful about it gets to understand what other people think about him.
Arthur Miller...When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself.
Arthur MillerLife, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.
Arthur MillerA play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
Arthur MillerI have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.
Arthur MillerI came out of a culture in which my uncle, my father - they were all salesmen of one kind or another. My father was a manufacturer. He also, in effect, had to sell that stuff. And if he didn't literally do it, his men did. So, selling was in the air through my boyhood. The whole idea of successfully selling was very important.
Arthur Miller