Art is what is irresistible.

In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it."

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

It is simply in the nature of Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore, to preserve, to make, and to give.

Be grateful for yourself...be thankful.

In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.

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

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.

It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love

I always see the crack in the glass before I see the window.

There is error in a church when miracles are made the only thing.

Tears don’t make you a girl, but they sure make you human.

With stand-up, it doesn't matter who you are. If the audience claps because they love your movies, that clapping stops after five seconds, and then it's your job to make them laugh.

Get at least 8 hours of beauty sleep. 9 if you're ugly.

...an imperfect plan implemented immediately and violently will always succeed better than a perfect plan.

Wrestling - It isn't just a passion, it's my future.

The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.

My young men shall never work. Men who work cannot dream, and wisdom comes to us in dreams.