His 'killing instinct'

Arthur Miller (1915-2005) at his wedding, in 1956, to his second wife, Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962). They were divorced in 1961.

“I don’t know, I just couldn’t bear the idea of people trying to destroy each other, ‘cause I sensed very early on that all real arguments are murderous. There was a killing instinct in there that I feared. So, I put it into the theater.”

—Arthur Miller, American playwright and essayist) and long-time resident of Roxbury, Conn.