The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.

It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.

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.

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

Every artist is in everything he creates, and indeed if the truth is told, every person is in his life, in his work, whatever his work may be, and this is visible in his face, figure, stance, movement, and totality.

All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.

In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.