274 Quotes by William Saroyan

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 instance, such as a daughter, or a son, I would rather receive a letter.

All I can say is that there is indeed a crisis here. We cannot speak to one another in a meaningful way, every one of us is a leader, a general of the army, a king, a president, the greatest thinker of all time, and so on and so forth. This is the curse of the Armenian race.

What we want to do is keep from hindering. If it’s impossible to help, it’s always possible to hinder.

All writers are discontent. That’s because they’re aware of a potential and believe they’re not reaching it.

Think before you speak, think twice before you shout, think three times before you go mad.

Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.

The writer is everybody’s best friend and only true enemy – the good and great enemy. He neither walks with the multitude nor cheers with them. The writer who is a writer is a rebel who never stops.

The order I found was the order of disorder.

As for the matter of what we may expect from one another, that is indeed something we are eager to learn – all of us, all our lives, but I wonder, do we ever learn, do we ever really find out?