Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

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.

It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors.

A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you.

The job is to ask questions - it always was - and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.