If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of everyday violence which people have become accustomed to, and the dehumanisation of feelings, then the ultimate develop

I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life

A man is not an orange. You can't eat the fruit and throw the peel away

A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke

I understand [Willy Loman's] longing for immortality Willy's writing his name in a cake of ice on a hot day. but he wishes he were writing in stone

He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes

I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door

The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality