Quotes from William Saroyan
Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so they can see their kids. They're very brave.
— William Saroyan
Each of you will begin to be truly human when, in spite of your natural dislike of one another, you still respect one another. That is what it means to be civilized.
— William Saroyan
No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.
— William Saroyan
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.
— William Saroyan
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
— William Saroyan
In the time of your life, live---so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for andy life your life touches.
— William Saroyan
I sometimes think that rich men belong to another nationality entirely, no matter what their actual nationality happens to be. The nationality of the rich.
— William Saroyan
You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.
— William Saroyan
Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.
— William Saroyan
This was such bad writing that it was good.
— William Saroyan
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
— William Saroyan
This is a hell of a night. I don't want to leave it just to go to sleep.
— William Saroyan