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

“On the day the world is blown up, the playwright whose show opened the night before will be leafing past the news section of the Times to find his review--as he ascends through the stratosphere, oblivious.”

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

“The two most common elements in the world are hydrogen and stupidity.”

“Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.”

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

“I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An awful lot of people feel that they're treading water -- that if they vanished in smoke, it wouldn't mean anything at all in this world. And that's a despairing and destructive feeling. It'll kill you.”