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

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 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.

She led me to believe we will going fast because her thoughts were going fast.

I'm a huge believer in learning anything from multiple points of view.

The culture around here is much less cutthroat than it is in, say, Silicon Valley, or even within the non-profit culture in D.C.

Suddenly you're like a pirate, you're 65 years old and you've got an earring.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

If sexuality is one dimension of our ability to live passionately in the world then in cutting off our sexual feelings we diminish our overall power to feel know and value deeply.

A journey once begun, has no end

It is frequently more rewarding merely to ask pertinent questions. It may get someone to go and look for an answer.

The unanswerable mysteries... the attitude that all is uncertain... to summarize it - the humility of the intellect.

The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.