Good stuff

 

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets"

 
"What I saw during the Depression left me with the feeling that the economic system is subject to instant collapse at any particular moment--I still think so--and that security is an illusion which some people are fortunate enough not to outlive. On the long run, after all, we've had these crises--I don't know how many times in the last hundred years--not only we but every country. What one lived through in that case was for America a very unusual collapse in its depth and its breadth. A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression".

... Arthur Miller (1915-2005), an American playwright and essayist ... comment from an interview late in his life concerning his 1949 Pulitzer Prize play Death of a Salesman in the context of modern times.