“The idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.” — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.” — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Armenag Saroyan. A good man of whom the worst that anybody was willing to say, was that he was too good for… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck. — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else. — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that rich men belong to another nationality entirely, no matter what their actual nationality happens to be. The nationality… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
What can a man do to move along in some kind of grace through his days and years? — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I cannot see the war as historians see it. Those clever fellows study all the facts and they see the war as… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man:… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how, and you do it the way the old English walnut tree… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Whoever the kid had been, whoever had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the… — 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… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“There's a pretty woman for ever lucky man in the world: every man in the world is a lucky man if he… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play. — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Standing at the edge of our city, a man could feel that we had made this place of streets and dwellings in… — 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
