“There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten.”

— William Saroyan, "The Declaration of War," 1944

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.”

“Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end.”

“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”

“Something the heart must have to cherish, must love and joy and sorrow learn.”

“Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth.”

“Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.”

“Either knowledge is not to be attained at all, or if at all, after death.”