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

Nothing good ever ends.

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant.

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.

Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.

This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.

I believe in anything that works.