People is all everything is, all it has ever been, all it can ever be. — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth. — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again,… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
The mad also laugh, or is that what Freud and the others discovered perhaps, that only the mad laugh? — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
One day in the afternoon of the world, glum death will come and sit in you, and when you get up to… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I have an idea that most of all he is running away from love, because it's too big and too demanding. He's… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Love doesn't have to be perfect. Even perfect, it is still the best thing there is, for the simple reason that it… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Neither love nor hate, nor any order of intense adherence to personal involvement in human experience, may be so apt to serve… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
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… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is,… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“This is a hell of a night. I don't want to leave it just to go to sleep.” — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Americans still believe they are cut out to be successful-in everything: love, love-making, luck, luck-giving, money-making, sense-making, cancer-avoiding, clothes-wearing, car-driving, and so on. — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I can't decide for you whether or not you have got to write, but if anything in the world, war, or pestilence, or famine,… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see for sure what we saw long ago but weren't… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live,… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
San Francisco is a world to explore. It is a place where the heart can go on a delightful adventure. — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
