What my children appear to be on the surface is no matter to me. I am fooled neither by gracious manners nor by bad manners. I am interested in what is truly beneath each kind of manners...I want my children to be people- each one separate- each one special- each one a pleasant and exciting variation of all the others
William SaroyanI used to throw things out, saying, 'This isn't great.' It didn't occur to me that it didn't have to be great.
William Saroyan