I am out here in the far West, in San Francisco, in a small room on Carl Street, writing a letter to common people, telling them in simple language w… - William Saroyan

Everything is changed — for you. But it is still the same, too. The loneliness you feel has come to you because you are no longer a child. But the whole world has always been full of that loneliness. The loneliness does not come from the War. The War did not make it. It was the loneliness that made the War.

Eating cherries on a hot July afternoon in Michigan is one of the greatest things that can happen to anybody, and here it is right now - three minutes after three - happening to ME, and to you.

A writer wants what he has to say to be heard again and again. He wants it to be heard after he is dead.