I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?

A play's an interpretation. It is not a report. And that is the beginning of its poetry because, in order to interpret, you have to distort toward a symbolic construction of what happened, and as that distortion takes place, you begin to leave out and overemphasize and consequently deliver up life as a unity rather than as a chaos, and any such attempt, the more intense it is, the more poetic it becomes.

When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.

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

There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it.

Willy Loman: I don't want change, I want Swiss cheese!