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

Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents.

The culture of the United States has flooded the world. It's the inevitable result of a powerful culture, art. We've got an instinctive touch when it comes to the popular mind because we've had no aristocracy. It is a democratic country. And we know without knowing it, without bothering to understand it, how to reach ordinary people, sometimes with the most vulgar, worthless junk on the face of the earth, but we know how to do it [laughter].

The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress

I don't say he's a great man. Willie Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall in his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person.

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

The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.