What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.

San Francisco is a world to explore. It is a place where the heart can go on a delightful adventure.

My work has always been the product of my time.

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.

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.

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

Baseball is caring. Player and fan alike must care, or there is no game. If there's no game, there's no pennant race and no World Series. And for all any of us know there might soon be no nation at all. It is good to care - in any dimension. More Americans put their caring into baseball than into anything else I can think of - and most put at least a little of it there. Baseball can be trusted, as great art can, and bad art can't.