You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.
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.
It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.
I believe there are ways whose ends are life instead of death.
This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.
Remember that every man is a variation of yourself
All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.
When Ulysses saw his brother, a wonderful thing happened to his face. All the terror left his eyes, because now he was hom
When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.
A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art.
I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn’t happiness.
You know the look: genius gone to pot, and ready to join the Communist Party
How do you write? You write, man, you write, that’s how…If you practice an art faithfully it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up.
One picture is worth a thousand words. Yes, but only if you look at the picture and say or think the thousand words
The idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn’t know any better.
What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.
There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer is gentle and kindly where another man is severe and unkind.
The purpose of art is to give the traveling human race an improved map that shows the way to itself. If art isn’t for *that*, what is it for?
You write a hit play the same way you write a flop
What we want to do is keep from hindering. If it’s impossible to help, it’s always possible to hinder.
Genius is play, and man’s capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.
I care so much about everything that I care about nothing
Every man in the world is better than some one else. And not as good as some one else.
Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
Of course if you like your kids if you love them from the moment they begin you yourself begin all over again in them and with them.
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
Every man in the world is better than someolne else and not as good as someone else.
Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.
Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.