The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and everybody. 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

I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.

What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.

No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.

Remember that every man is a variation of yourself

I believe in anything that works.

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.