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.

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.

Have you ever had so many thoughts churning inside that you didn’t dare let them escape, in case they blew you wide open

One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.

At no time, anywhere, was the population of a country told the truth: facts about events trickled into general consciousness much later, if ever.

The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I've got sarcastic company.

Physicists have yet to understand why the Higgs boson's mass is what it is.

there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.

I'm into rock'n'roll because rock'n'roll, to me, means freedom.

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony

Grand Thoughts that never can be wearied out, Showing the unreality of Time.

If you hold me, I will let you into my dreams.