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

Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are in English, the surroundings I write about are American, but the soul, which makes me write, is Armenian. This means I am an Armenian writer and deeply love the honor of being a part of the family of Armenian wrtiters.

I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

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

You live and die according to what goes on in yourself, which no one else can even begin to know, not even father, mother, wife, son, or daughter.

Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection with the next.