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.
The only thing you’ve got in this world is what you can sell.
See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I’m constantly lowering my ideals...
We have not many wills, but only one – it cannot be continuously compromised without atrophy setting in altogether.
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 humility.
John Proctor: I will fall like an ocean on that court!
I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.