102 quotes
I have seen too many frightful proofs in court — the Devil is alive in Salem, and we dare not quail to follow wherever the accusing finger points!
The Crucible (1953)
Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.
Death of a Salesman (1949)
The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.
Death of a Salesman (1949)
Attention, attention must be finally paid to such a person.
Death of a Salesman (1949)
If only for this reason I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.
Collected Plays (1958)
Work a lifetime to pay off a house — You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.
Death of a Salesman (1949)
You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away — a man is not a piece of fruit.
Death of a Salesman (1949)
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
He have his goodness now, God forbid I take it from him!
The Crucible (1953)
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Death of a Salesman (1949)
A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.
Death of a Salesman (1949)
The Crucible became by far my most frequently produced play, both abroad and at home. Its meaning is somewhat different in different places and moments.
The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.
Federalism and the French Canadians (1968)
I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
Finding Your Bipolar Muse : How to Master Depressive Droughts and Manic Depression (2006)
After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.
Death of a Salesman (1949)
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
After the Fall (1964)
Theology, sir, is a fortress; no crack in a fortress may be accounted small.
The Crucible (1953)
The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.