The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to myself, although I am the only comfort I have, exc… - William Saroyan

My uncle jumped up from the desk, loving him more than he loved any other man in the world, and through him loving the lost nation, the multitude dead, and the multitude living in every alien corner of the world.

Կարծում էի, որ մարդ երբեք լաց չի լինի, երբ մեծանա, չափահաս դառնա, բայց թվում է, որ հենց այդ ժամանակ է մարդը սկսում լաց լինել, որովհետև այդ ժամանակ է, որ նա սկսում է հասկանալ ամեն ինչ:

Now, if Mr. Shaw and Mr. Saroyan are poles apart, no comparison between the two, one great and the other nothing, one a genius and the other a charlatan, let me repeat that if you must know which writer has influenced my writing when influences are real and for all I know enduring, then that writer has been George Bernard Shaw. I shall in my own day influence a young writer or two somewhere or other, and no one need worry about that. Young Shaw, hello out there.