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. - William Saroyan

Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I’m from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are in English, the surroundings I write about are American, but the soul, which makes me write, is Armenian. This means I am an Armenian writer and deeply love the honor of being a part of the family of Armenian wrtiters.

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant

Art and politics must move closer together. Reflection and action must be equally valid in good men if history is not to take one course and art an other.