San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth.

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.

I say that I get paid to travel, and I play the shows for free.

If falling in love is like taking off or flying, then love is like landing.

I'm living life right now, maine and this what Imma do til it's over, til it's over.. but it's far from over.

Are people so unhappy when they love?" "Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved.

Because God is reflected in the world in which me made, in some sense, my scientific investigation has always supported my belief in God in a very real sense. It helps me to pray better.

I've worked with a lot of great directors and often times they solicit your ideas.

I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat.

Look, we're living in a crazy time right now. There's a lot of craziness going on in the world and in the United States in particular.

Sometimes when you're in love, there are things you feel that you can't really explain. It doesn't really make sense. That's how I feel when i'm in love

For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.