Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.

A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.

Sometimes...it's better for a man just to walk away. But if you can't walk away? I guess that's when it's tough.

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

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.