I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

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.

That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?

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

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.