All William Saroyan Quotes
- Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed. Bring
- Nothing good ever ends. Ends
- The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind. Bicycle
- San Francisco is a world to explore. It is a place where the heart can go on a delightful adventure. Adventure
- My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a specific place? Rivers… Animal
- Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit. Doctors
- Chance acquaintances are sometimes the most memorable, for brief friendships have such definite starting and stopping points that they take on a quality of art,… Acquaintance
- Every artist is in everything he creates, and indeed if the truth is told, every person is in his life, in his work, whatever his… Artist
- All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but… Accidents
- The people you like when you meet them and while you know them, and the people you remember fondly, are invariably people who have a… Comedy
- But who can speak to God, or rather who can't? The question is, who can get an answer? Answer
- Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better. Any
- You write a hit play the same way you write a flop. Flop
- The mad also laugh, or is that what Freud and the others discovered perhaps, that only the mad laugh? Discovered
- Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection with the next. Connection
- Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck. Asking
- You live and die according to what goes on in yourself, which no one else can even begin to know, not even father, mother, wife,… According
- I have never received a telephone call that justified the excitement and fuss of the electronics involved. If I can't see somebody I love, for… Call
- The best that can be said for anybody is probably that you misunderstood him favorably. Anybody
- 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 all… All
- Writers are a fascinating breed, because there are so many kinds of them, they are made by so many circumstances, conditions, and mysteries, and there… Breed
- If you're alive, you can't be bored in San Francisco. If you're not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life......San Francisco is a world… Adventure
- Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: )You… Admonishment
- The simple fact was that if the song wasn't about me, I couldn't see how it could possibly be about anybody else, including the one… Anybody
- There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all. All