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.

Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.

The Giver of Life enrages us, He intoxicates us here.No one is at His sideto be famous, to rule on Earth.

Smart people have the brains, but stupid people have the balls

Lying is the greatest of all sins.

Every girl is capable of murder if you hurt her.

I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.

The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as what is not Greek, not Christian, nor Western, not Aryan.

Before Mozart, all ambition turns to despair.

I do think we need for a troop to be able to house his family. That's an important part of building morale in the military.

I remember when I was in college, I used to watch Julia Child's cooking show during dinner and joke with my roommates about becoming a TV chef.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.