Willy Loman: I don't want change, I want Swiss cheese!

I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.

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

We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!

I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.

The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.

An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t either.

Your horse is named Small.Yes.Mine is named Big.-Fire and Brigan

As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where its packed every night, theres nothing like it.

True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.

Twenty years ago rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for IBM.

We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of.

The essential building block is...the true love that is impossible to define for those who have never experienced it and unnecessary to define for those who have.

A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do his job when he does feel like it.

Some say, Life is short. I say; Life is tall-grab a straw!

Truth can be sifted out from falsehood only if the government is vigorously and consistently cross-examined, so that the fundamental issues of the struggle may be clearly defined