William Saroyan Quotes

The end of life evokes the errors of it, and a fellow wishes he had known better.

Love of the streets is the love out of which I see deeply I love God, how near I come to the truth.

In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things, good things, comic things, and I did so.

Nobody seemed to be interested in anything except making money.

Many friendships are swift and accidental, the result of a chance meeting, followed by a permanent separation.

Boredom was the plague of my childhood. While I was at the orphanage, the boredom came from being in a place I did not wish to be. I was bored. I was bored the entire four years I was there.

My writing is careless, but all through it is something that is good, that is mine alone, that no other writer could ever achieve.

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

The world was my home and I was glad to be in it.

I loved the theaters, and even though I was hungry, I never spent money for food.

The streets made me, and the streets stink, but I love them, for I was born in them out of flesh and I was born in them out of spirit.

A man cannot write a poem or a story that will transform the whole nature of man, his reality and his truth, making them greater and nobler.

I had in my soul the greatest truths to tell, but when I came to the work of telling them I couldn't do it.

Illness is essentially discomfort, and it is not easy for anybody to be comfortable all the time... in his body, in his work, in his house, or in his soul.

My illness is life itself.