Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so they can see their kids. They're very brave.

It is simply in the nature of Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore, to preserve, to make, and to give.

All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.

This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.

In the time of your life, live-so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches.

I believe in anything that works.

All things lie dark in possibility.