Early this morning, I signed my death warrant.

I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.

I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.

The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.

I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.

I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.

It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.

Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.