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

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

Be liked and you will never want.

Nobody dast blame this man. For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back -- that's an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you're finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.

A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about.