No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.
William SaroyanI cannot see the war as historians see it. Those clever fellows study all the facts and they see the war as a large thing, one of the biggest events in the legend of the man, something general, involving multitudes.
William SaroyanDoctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.
William SaroyanI don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel.
William SaroyanUnless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half a man, and there will always be pain in the world, knowing this does not mean that a man shall dispair. A good man will seek to take pain out of things. A foolish man will not even notice it, except in himself, and the poor unfortunate evil man will drive pain deeper into things and spread it about wherever he goes.
William Saroyan