When Ulysses saw his brother, a wonderful thing happened to his face. All the terror left his eyes, because now he was hom.
If I want to do anything, I want to speak a more universal language.
I watch the growth of spirit in the children who come to my class.
The Americans have found the healing of God in a variety of things, the most pleasant of which is probably automobile drives.
I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn’t happiness.
Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and 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 role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.
In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.
One day in the afternoon of the world, glum death will come and sit in you, and when you get up to walk, you will be as glum as death, but if you’re lucky, this will only make the fun better and the love greater.
You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.
Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.
It is simply in the nature of Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore, to preserve, to make, and to give.
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.
If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is no longer a thief.
I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal, unattractive, and unecessary idea ever imposed upon the human race.
When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.
Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.