My work has always been the product of my time. - William Saroyan

Art and religion would not be able to stop the war any more than they would be able to stop tomorrow.

How can you talk if you don’t say anything? I said.
You talk without words. We are always talking without words.
Well, what good are words, then?
Not very good, most of the time. Most of the time they’re only good to keep back what you really want to say, or something you don’t want known.

The people you hate, well, this is the question about such people: why do you hate them?