I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him. Willy: Then what have I got to remember?

There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.

After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.

You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.