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It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.

Of all the things I love to taste, sweetest is the kiss of love.

Armenag Saroyan. A good man of whom the worst that anybody was willing to say, was that he was too good for this world.

I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.

When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.

No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.

You must not be unkind, especially when it happens that you're right.

I used to throw things out, saying, 'This isn't great.' It didn't occur to me that it didn't have to be great.

The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.

We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.

Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.

All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.

The order I found was the order of disorder

Christmas is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child.

You live and die according to what goes on in yourself, which no one else can even begin to know, not even father, mother, wife, son, or daughter.

This is a hell of a night. I don't want to leave it just to go to sleep.

I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else
and better too!

My work has always been the product of my time.

Kids are always the only future the human race has.

You write a hit play the same way you write a flop

Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection with the next.

I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Be, beget, begone.

But who can speak to God, or rather who can't? The question is, who can get an answer?

When Ulysses saw his brother, a wonderful thing happened to his face. All the terror left his eyes, because now he was hom

Be grateful for yourself ... be thankful.

One picture is worth a thousand words. Yes, but only if you look at the picture and say or think the thousand words

The Tax Collector's letters are invariably mimeographed, and all they say is that you still haven't paid him.

There's a pretty woman for ever lucky man in the world: every man in the world is a lucky man if he only knew it, so why waste time?

I wanted to know her the way a bee wants to know a great bright flower.

A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art.

San Francisco is a world to explore. It is a place where the heart can go on a delightful adventure.

What can a man do to move along in some kind of grace through his days and years?

Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.

What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?

I believe in anything that works.

The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.

Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.

The idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.

I'm not the kind of guy to knock at a door and then when the door is opened not go in.

He was under the impression that he belonged wherever there was something interesting to see.

Think before you speak, think twice before you shout, think three times before you go mad.

A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.

Live, for this is the time of your life.

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.

What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.

It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.

Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.

Remember that every man is a variation of yourself

What we want to do is keep from hindering. If it's impossible to help, it's always possible to hinder.

He's finding out, he's doing all right, he'll go to school but nobody's going to teach him anything.

It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear.

I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.

Art is what is irresistible.

If I have any desire at all, it is to show the brotherhood of man.

We are not forced into unpleasant activities. We either allow them to come about or we encourage them to come about.

My work is writing, but my real work is being.

Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed.

Nothing good ever ends.

The best that can be said for anybody is probably that you misunderstood him favorably.

Jack Benny had style from the beginning. He stood straight and walked kind of sideways as if he were being gently shoved by a touch of genius.

The Americans have found the healing of God in a variety of things, the most pleasant of which is probably automobile drives.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

I care so much about everything that I care about nothing

All things lie dark in possibility.

You know the look: genius gone to pot, and ready to join the Communist Party

Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one's hunches about somebody one has met.

I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it.

Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.

I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.

Remember that in the midst of that which is most tragic there is always the comic and in the midst that which is most evil there is always much good.

There is no real freedom for the man who is in so much of a hurry that he is annoyed by the human race and by the hot glaring afternoon sun.

Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.

Give me something about bacteria. Give me something that won't make me feel so inferior

What a people talk about means something. What they don't talk about means something.

If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is no longer a thief.

All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.

Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another.

People is all everything is, all it has ever been, all it can ever be.

All writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it.

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

Their singing wasn't particularly good, but the feeling with which they sang was not bad at all.

The people you hate, well, this is the question about such people: why do you hate them?

Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers.

This was such bad writing that it was good.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

Illness must be considered to be as natural as health.

Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.

I watch the growth of spirit in the children who come to my class.

What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.

When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

Nobody, but nobody, is going to tell me I'm not the most. I am. I was the most when everybody else was struggling bitterly to become a little.

If I want to do anything, I want to speak a more universal language.

I believe there are ways whose ends are life instead of death.