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.

Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him. Willy: Then what have I got to remember?

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.

THE PRICE grew out of a need to reconfirm the power of the past, the seedbed of current reality, and the way to possibly reaffirm cause and effect in an insane world.

... vulgarity has no nation.

There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it.

I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An awful lot of people feel that they're treading water -- that if they vanished in smoke, it wouldn't mean anything at all in this world. And that's a despairing and destructive feeling. It'll kill you.