What my children appear to be on the surface is no matter to me. I am fooled neither by gracious manners nor by bad manners. I am interested in what is truly beneath each kind of manners...I want my children to be people- each one separate- each one special- each one a pleasant and exciting variation of all the others
William SaroyanI have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laugher to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed.
William SaroyanSeek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed.
William SaroyanEvery man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.
William Saroyan