“I only ask you one thing- don't trust nobody”

“The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress”

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

“We have not many wills, but only one --it cannot be continuously compromised without atrophy setting in altogether.”

“Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!- Abigail”

“I stopped in the middle of that building and I saw — the sky. I saw the things that I love in this world. The work and the food and time time to sit and smoke. And I looked at the pen and said to myself, what the hell am I grabbing this for? Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am! Why can't I say that, Willy?”

“Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.”