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.

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

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

A doctor could make a million dollars if he could figure out a way to bring a boy into the world without a trigger finger.

. . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think film is a completely different medium. I think a novel is much closer to a film.

The world is always ending; the exact date depends on when you came into it.

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