The mad also laugh, or is that what Freud and the others discovered perhaps, that only the mad laugh?
William SaroyanShe cried a little, but only inside, because long ago she had decided she didn't like crying because if you ever started to cry it seemed as if there was so much to cry about you almost couldn't stop, and she didn't like that at all.
William SaroyanIn 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.
William SaroyanI 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.
William SaroyanLove doesn't have to be perfect. Even perfect, it is still the best thing there is, for the simple reason that it is the most common and constant truth of all, of all life, all law and order, the very thing which holds everything together, which permits everything to move along in time and be its wonderful or ordinary self.
William Saroyan