William Saroyan Quotes

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

Live, for this is the time of your life.

To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians.
Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book

In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.

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.

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

But try to remember that a good man can never die. You will see your brother many times again-in the streets, at home, in all the places of the town. The person of a man may go, but the best part of him stays. It stays forever.

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

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

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.

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

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

Death is not an easy thing for anyone to understand, least of all a child, but every life shall one day end. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us. His body can be taken, but not him.

Be, beget, begone.

What the hell are they all looking for? A way out. A way to the right way out. A way to leave. A way to go.
A way to have had it, to have had enough of it, to be done with it.
A decent way to give it all over to the giver of it all,