When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back.

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

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.

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

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.

There is a kind of perverse unity forming among us, born, I think, of the discontent of all classes of people with the endless frustration of life.

There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.