“I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it.”

— William Saroyan, The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills, 1952

About William Saroyan

1908 – 1981

American writer, author of "The Human Comedy".

“Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell.”

“All things lie dark in possibility.”

“Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.”

“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law.”

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

“All that glisters is not gold.”

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

“And one man in his time plays many parts.”

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”