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

I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

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

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.

Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.

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.

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