The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.

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.

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

The written word imparts a gravitas the spoken word lacks. The underlying assumption is that time and thought has been expended on what was written, even if that is not the case.

Thorn gazed back and forth between the two of us. "You could have left me behind, but you stayed. I won't forget that.

The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.

Freedom of expression does not extend to insulting the Prophets of Allah.

To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.

Can I convince the person about whom I'm crazy to be crazy about me? The short answer is no. The long answer is no.

Man makes god in his own image.

We have some concerns if student financial aid is not keeping pace, and college costs continue to outstrip inflation.

Humans are capable of so much creativity and goodness and at the same time they are destructive and cruel. (Leta)

The first thing you learn in boxing is that there are NO guarantees.