"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
— Arthur Miller

"The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy."
— Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman)

"Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!"
— Arthur Miller (The Crucible)

"After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive."
— Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman)

"Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven."
— Arthur Miller (The Crucible)

"If I have to be alone I want to be by myself."
— Arthur Miller

"If a person measures his spiritual fulfillment in terms of cosmic visions, surpassing peace of mind, or ecstasy, then he is not likely to know much spiritual fulfillment. If, however, he measures it in terms of enjoying a sunrise, being warmed by a child's smile, or being able to help someone have a better day, then he is likely to know much spiritual fulfillment. "
— Arthur Miller

"He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid."
— Arthur Miller

"A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself."
— Arthur Miller

"A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man."
— Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman: Revised Edition)

"Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!
- Abigail"
— Arthur Miller (The Crucible)

"Everything we are is at every moment alive in us."
— Arthur Miller

"Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way."
— Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman)

"HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit"
— Arthur Miller (The Crucible)

"Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth dust of the feet that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name! ~John Proctor"
— Arthur Miller (The Crucible)

"There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it."
— Arthur Miller

"You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit."
— Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman: Revised Edition)

"The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning."
— Arthur Miller

"The two most common elements in the world are hydrogen and stupidity.
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— Arthur Miller

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. "
— Arthur Miller

"Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July."
— Arthur Miller

"Sex, sin, and the Devil were early linked."
— Arthur Miller (The Crucible)

"We have not many wills, but only one --it cannot be continuously compromised without atrophy setting in altogether."
— Arthur Miller (Incident at Vichy: A Play)

"Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth dust of the feet that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!"
— Arthur Miller (The Crucible)

"(Looking at the letter in his hand) Then what is this if it isn’t telling me? Sure, [Larry] was my son. But I think to him [the pilots killed] were all my sons. And I guess they were, I guess they were"
— Arthur Miller (All My Sons)

"Pop, I'm nothing! I'm nothing, Pop. Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it any more. I'm just what I am, that's all."
— Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman)

"John Proctor: I will fall like an ocean on that court!"
— Arthur Miller