274 Quotes by William Saroyan

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

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.

One picture is worth a thousand words. Yes, but only if you look at the picture and say or think the thousand words

The order I found was the order of disorder

I don't expect you to understand anything I'm telling you. But I know you will remember this—that nothing good ever ends. If it did, there would be no people in the world—no life at all, anywhere. And the world is full of people and full of wonderful life.

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant

The person of a man may leave—or be taken away—but the best part of a good man stays. It stays forever. Love is immortal and makes all things immortal. But hate dies every minute.

The Americans have found the healing of God in a variety of things, the most pleasant of which is probably automobile drives.

All things lie dark in possibility.