The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

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

A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.

When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back.

How to live had started out as an analytical problem of how to place himself so as to intercept the flow of money in the society.

It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves