I 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.

I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it.

The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.

All of the sudden," he said, "I feel different-- not like I ever felt before. Even when Papa died I didn't feel this way. In two days everything is changed. I'm lonely and I don't now what I'm lonely for

What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.

What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.

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