Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

Pray calm yourselves. I have eleven children, and I am twenty-six times a grandma, and I have seen them all through their silly seasons, and when it come on them they will run the Devil...

It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.

I know you’re no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.

Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.

Proctor: I am only wondering how I may prove what she told me, Elizabeth. If the girl’s a saint now, I think it is not easy to prove she’s fraud, and the town gone so...

Do I raise the dead when I put him behind bars? Then what’ll I do it for? We used to shoot a man who acted like a dog, but honor was real there, you were...

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

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.

The train resembles the Soviet type and is quite comfortable, but all socialist structures I have ever encountered have toilets stemming from a single model engineered by the Orthodox Church in Tsarist Russia to ensure...

When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile area, that all gods were useful and essentially friendly to man despite occasional lapsesl when we see the...

Now, as the weeks passed, there was a future, there was a trouble that would not go away.

Mother: What more can we be?Chris: You can be better! Once and for all you can know there’s a universe of people outside and you’re responsible to it, and unless you know that you threw...

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

…he’ll come back. We all come back, kate. These private little revolutions always die. The compromise is always made. In a peculiar way. Frank is right– every man does have a star. The star of...

I know what’s wrong with me – I could never stand still for death! Which you’ve got to do by a certain age, or be ridiculous – you’ve got to stand there nobly and serene,...

Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the veils of illusion as it disappears.

When the law is wrong it’s because it’s unnatural, but in this case it is natural and a river will drown you if you buck it now

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,...

Will you let me go for Christ’s sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?

Oh, there were many here who were justly shot by unjust men.

The only thing you’ve got in this world is what you can sell.

[W]e conceive the Devil as a necessary part of a respectable view of cosmology. Ours is a divided empire in which certain ideas and emotions and actions are of God, and their opposites are of...

The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can’t get out of within.

Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.

An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted.

I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart! I never knew what pretence Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all...

See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I’m constantly lowering my ideals…