William Saroyan Quotes

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

...Each of you will begin to be truly human when, in spite of your natural dislike of one another, you still respect one another. That is what it means to be civilized.

The order I found was the order of disorder

A man must pretend not to be a writer.

A writer wants what he has to say to be heard again and again. He wants it to be heard after he is dead.

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

Remember that every man is a variation of yourself

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

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

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

Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.

A neighborhood has a kind of mystical identity which one scarcely suspects let alone notices while one is living there, for living uses up all of a man's time and attention. But in retrospect sooner or later a man remembers an old neighborhood and suddenly notices that there was something fantastic about the place.

Nobody seemed to be interested in anything except making money.

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

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