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.

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

The mad also laugh, or is that what Freud and the others discovered perhaps, that only the mad laugh?

I used to throw things out, saying, 'This isn't great.' It didn't occur to me that it didn't have to be great.

Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection with the next.

Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.

What do you mean, what's the matter with him? Nothing's the matter with him, everything's the matter with him, the same as it is with everybody else. He's just fine. He gets overwhelmed now and then, and he doesn't know how to say what he feels or means, so he cries and runs off a little, trying to find out where to go, for God's sake. Where can you go?