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

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

The child race is fresh, eager, interested, innocent, imaginative, healthy and full of faith, where the adult race, more often than not, is stale, spiritually debauched, unimaginative, unhealthy, and without faith.

I'm no Armenian. I'm an American. Well, the truth is I am both and neither. I love Armenia and I love America and I belong to both, but I am only this: an inhabitant of the earth, and so are you, whoever you are. I tried to forget Armenia but I couldn't do it.

Nobody, but nobody, is going to tell me I'm not the most. I am. I was the most when everybody else was struggling bitterly to become a little.

When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.

Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.