William Saroyan

The best thing we have is sleep, of course, and what is sleep except the putting aside of everything tentative for another…

— William Saroyan

Baseball is caring. Player and fan alike must care, or there is no game. If there's no game, there's no pennant race…

— William Saroyan

“He's finding out, he's doing all right, he'll go to school but nobody's going to teach him anything.”

— William Saroyan

Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.

— William Saroyan

“Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man:…

— William Saroyan

Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and…

— William Saroyan

Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student.

— William Saroyan

The best that can be said for anybody is probably that you misunderstood him favorably.

— William Saroyan

“You abandon most readily those works that have no destination other than your own wishes; there is no editor or producer standing…

— William Saroyan

“Eating cherries on a hot July afternoon in Michigan is one of the greatest things that can happen to anybody, and here…

— William Saroyan

All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.

— William Saroyan

Indians are born with an instinct for riding, rowing, hunting, fishing, and swimming. Americans are born with an instinct for fooling around…

— William Saroyan

“There is a small area of land in Asia Minor that is called Armenia, but it is not so. It is not…

— William Saroyan

The mad also laugh, or is that what Freud and the others discovered perhaps, that only the mad laugh?

— William Saroyan

Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection…

— William Saroyan

“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

“Of the unchanging things, the town in which you first saw the light is one of the most unchanging. It is always…

— William Saroyan

“The idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.”

— William Saroyan

All things lie dark in possibility.

— William Saroyan

I sometimes think that rich men belong to another nationality entirely, no matter what their actual nationality happens to be. The nationality…

— William Saroyan

Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one's hunches about…

— William Saroyan

I see death as a private event, the destruction of the universe in the brain and in the senses of man, and…

— William Saroyan

I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have…

— William Saroyan

“In getting from Windsor to Detroit there is a choice between a free tunnel and a toll bridge, which turned out to…

— William Saroyan

Art is what is irresistible.

— William Saroyan