Arthur Miller talks about his wife, Marylin Monroe. Fully realizing her beauty and his inability to act rationally in the face of it. Thanks to the On Point program for leading me to this dialogue.
MIKE WALLACE: No, no. Arthur Miller and I have known each other – we went to the same university, the University of Michigan, together. He realised that it was – unthinkable, what in the world would Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe have in common? He virtually acknowledged it. You knew that it was doomed?
ARTHUR MILLER: I didn’t know it was doomed but I certainly felt it had a good chance to be.
MIKE WALLACE: You said to her, “I keep trying to teach myself how to lose you “but I can’t learn yet.” And she says, “Why must you lose me?”
ARTHUR MILLER: Well, it just shows you the power of instinct over what’s left of your brains at such moments when you’re being drawn to someone and you sense that it may not work and you can’t stop it anyway.
A Life of Wonder 
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