Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author. |
Death of a Salesman |
Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value. |
Don't take it on yourself. Forget now. Live. |
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money. |
He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world. |
He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake . . . A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory. |
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. |
I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door. |
I couldn't have predicted that a work like 'Death of a Salesman' would take on the proportions it has |
I dreamed I had a child, and even in the dream I saw it was my life, and it was an idiot, and I ran away. But it always crept on to my lap again, clutched at my clothes. Until I thought, if I could kiss it, whatever in it is my own, perhaps I could s |
I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult. |
I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act. |
I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match. |
I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self. |