William Saroyan Quotes
1908 – 1981
American writer, author of "The Human Comedy".
24 quotesAbout William Saroyan on Wikipedia
“All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.”
“The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is.”
“He wanted to be a passenger on anything that was going anywhere, but most of all on a ship.”
“The people you hate, well, this is the question about such people: why do you hate them?”
“Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective.”
“Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.”
“All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.”
“Art comes from the world, belongs to it, can never escape from it.”
“Don't forget that some things count more than other things.”
“What art needs is greater men, and what politics needs is better men.”
“We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.”
