In the time of your life, live-so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches.

All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but an unbearable ordeal every day, which can be made tolerable only by mockery in one form or another.

All writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it.

Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one's hunches about somebody one has met.

Be grateful for yourself...be thankful.

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

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.