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

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.

I used to throw things out, saying, 'This isn't great.' It didn't occur to me that it didn't have to be great.

I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else-- and better too!

The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.

It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.

All of the sudden," he said, "I feel different-- not like I ever felt before. Even when Papa died I didn't feel this way. In two days everything is changed. I'm lonely and I don't now what I'm lonely for