274 Quotes by William Saroyan

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

What can a man do to move along in some kind of grace through his days and years?

I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.

It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear.

I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away from a man his madness without also taking away his identity? Are we sure it is desirable for a man's spirit not to be at war with itself, or that it is better to be serene and ready to go to dinner than to be excited and unwilling to stop for a cup of coffee, even?

Art is what is irresistible.

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 an unbearable ordeal every day, which can be made tolerable only by mockery in one form or another.

The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.

Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers.