Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.

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.

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

Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.

Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half a man, and there will always be pain in the world, knowing this does not mean that a man shall dispair. A good man will seek to take pain out of things. A foolish man will not even notice it, except in himself, and the poor unfortunate evil man will drive pain deeper into things and spread it about wherever he goes.

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.

You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.