Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.
William SaroyanNo enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.
William SaroyanThis is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.
William SaroyanThere is a small area of land in Asia Minor that is called Armenia, but it is not so. It is not Armenia. It is a place. There are only Armenians, and they inhabit the earth, not Armenia, since there is no Armenia. There is no America and there is no England, and no France, and no Italy. There is only the earth.
William SaroyanI am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away from a man his madness without also taking away his identity? Are we sure it is desirable for a man's spirit not to be at war with itself, or that it is better to be serene and ready to go to dinner than to be excited and unwilling to stop for a cup of coffee, even?
William Saroyan