Quotes from William Saroyan

Live, for this is the time of your life.

To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book

But try to remember that a good man can never die. You will see your brother many times again-in the streets, at home, in all the places of the town. The person of a man may go, but the best part of him stays. It stays forever.

Death is not an easy thing for anyone to understand, least of all a child, but every life shall one day end. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us. His body can be taken, but not him.

In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.

Give me something about bacteria. Give me something that won't make me feel so inferior

Be, beget, begone.

A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.

In the time of your life, live---so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for andy life your life touches.

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

I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.

The child race is fresh, eager, interested, innocent, imaginative, healthy and full of faith, where the adult race, more often than not, is stale, spiritually debauched, unimaginative, unhealthy, and without faith.