To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book

Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers.

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man: all the rest is pretence, what we call civilization, hatred, fear, desire for strength.

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'm not the kind of guy to knock at a door and then when the door is opened not go in.

No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.