What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.

Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.

Americans still believe they are cut out to be successful-in everything: love, love-making, luck, luck-giving, money-making, sense-making, cancer-avoiding, clothes-wearing, car-driving, and so on.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.

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

The people you like when you meet them and while you know them, and the people you remember fondly, are invariably people who have a sense of comedy, not just a sense of humor.