Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.

I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.

... vulgarity has no nation.

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

Pop, I'm nothing! I'm nothing, Pop. Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it any more. I'm just what I am, that's all.

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

Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of men. This group will be called the Establishment. It exists even though that existence is stoutly denied. It is one of the secrets of the American social order... A second secret is the fact that the existence of the Establishment - the ruling class - is not supposed to be discussed.