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
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
This was such bad writing that it was good.
— 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
You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.
— 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
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
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
— William Saroyan
Illness must be considered to be as natural as health.
— William Saroyan
if a man is an honest idiot. i can love him. but i cannot love a dishonest genius
— William Saroyan