I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel.

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.

If we want people to accept us as we are, then we should accord the same courtesy to them

Talent is cheap. What matters is discipline.

It is important to announce your intentions at top volume, she thought, or your intentions will think you are ashamed of them.

People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

We humans need to do better with our vast minds and alchemical powers. Future radial poetries might be more symbiotic with the rest of consciousness.

I don't like my books being defined by their "about"-ness. So now the subtitle has just become a kind of strap-line on the cover.

I'm best known as a stand-up comedian, but I'm a good actor in the right role.

I keep having these bros come up to me and say, "I used to watch you when I was a fetus," and I just want to kill them.

Teaching is the ability to inspire learning.