If I see an ending, I can work backward.

The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.

PROCTOR--he knows it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what i sign to is not the same!

Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence.

PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead!

I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.

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