In the time of your life, live — -so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for andy life your life touches. - William Saroyan

Հիմարություն է մարդկանց քննադատել նրա համար, որ նրանք այնպես են, ինչպես, որ կան:

When, at the age of eighteen, I was the manager of the Postal Telegraph office at 21 Taylor Street in San Francisco, I remember having been asked by the clerk there, a man named Clifford, who the hell I thought I was. And I remember replying very simply and earnestly somewhat as follows: If you have ever heard of George Bernard Shaw, if you have ever read his plays or prefaces, you will know what I mean when I tell you that I am that man by another name. Who is he? I remember the clerk asking. George Bernard Shaw, I replied, is the tonic of the Christian peoples of the world. He is health, wisdom, and comedy, and that's what I am too.
How do you figure? The clerk said. Don't bother me, I said. I'm the night manager of this office and when I tell you something it's final.

I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing the way they had been. Just a little things, of course. A little of my little.