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.

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.

I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else-- and better too!

The best that can be said for anybody is probably that you misunderstood him favorably.

I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.

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

Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.