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 ….

Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died..

Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow..

The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy..

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not les….

HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit.

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay..

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..

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. ….

...When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself..

After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive..

I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life..

... vulgarity has no nation..

Nobody dast blame this man. For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you ….

Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house - in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling arou….

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

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

My plays are always involved with society, but I'm writing about people, too, and it's clear over the years that audiences understand them and care a….

The job is to ask questions - it always was - and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humil….

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money..

Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation..