PROCTOR--he knows it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what i sign to is not the same!

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

I came out of a culture in which my uncle, my father - they were all salesmen of one kind or another. My father was a manufacturer. He also, in effect, had to sell that stuff. And if he didn't literally do it, his men did. So, selling was in the air through my boyhood. The whole idea of successfully selling was very important.

One had the right to write because other people needed news of the inner world, and if they went too long without such news they would go mad with the chaos of their lives.

A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about.

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

The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships.