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

I am not a dime a dozen! I am Willy Loman, and you are Biff Loman!

When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.

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.

I couldn't have predicted that a work like 'Death of a Salesman' would take on the proportions it has

It is a lie.