most of the time we settle for half and i like it better, even as i know how wrong he was and his death useless, i tremble for i confess that something peversley pure calls to me from his memory

A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.

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

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

I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and now at seventy-two I have to stop myself from thinking like a man of fifty who has plenty of time ahead.

A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.

Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.