The Penguin Arthur Miller

“Here we find the true compassion and catharsis that are as essential to our society as water and fire and babies and air. I remember walking and running and jumping out of the theater after seeing Death of a Salesman, like a child in the morning, because Miller awakened in me the taste for all that must be—the empathy and love for the least of us, out of which bursts a gratitude for the poetry of these characters and the greatness of their creator.”
—Philip Seymour Hoffman
 
“His plays and his conscience are a cold burning force.”
—Edward Albee
 
“You can usually tell if a writers loves actors or not by the parts he gives you. He gives you tap dances. He gives you arias.”
—Dustin Hoffman
 
“[Death of a Salesman] was our story that we did not know until we heard it.”
—David Mamet
 
“Arthur Miller is a playwright for all seasons and all nations.”
—Christopher Bigsby

“The greatest playwright of the 20th Century.”
—Vaclav Havel

“Writing meant, for him, an effort to locate in the human species a counterforce to the randomness of victimisation.”
—Salman Rushdie

“He was so honest and a man of rare integrity in his writing.”
—Harold Pinter

“Arthur was the last of the three great theatrical voices of the American century – O’Neill, Williams, Miller.”
—David Hare

“[Miller] has looked with compassion into the hearts of some ordinary Americans and quietly transferred their hope and anguish to the theatre.”
—Brooks Atkinson