274 Quotes by William Saroyan

Of all the things I love to taste, sweetest is the kiss of love.

If you can measure it, don't. If you can weigh it, it isn't worth the bother. It isn't what you're after. It isn't going to get it.

If you’re alive, you can’t be bored in San Francisco. If you’re not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life.

In those days, there was something more to the world than there is now.

Christmas is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child.

In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite variety and mystery of it.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel.

We are not forced into unpleasant activities. We either allow them to come about or we encourage them to come about.