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.

In America, any man who is not a reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red hell.

Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.

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

... vulgarity has no nation.

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.

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