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

PROCTOR--he knows it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what i sign to is not the same!

The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.

Nevertheless, one learned very early that books had to be respected; they were all putative Bibles and to some small degree had a share in holiness.

I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.

A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.

They tried to escape technology, to stay away from that and still have relationships with their fellow humans. Very difficult.