Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play. William Saroyan More Quotes by William Saroyan More Quotes From William Saroyan Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit. William Saroyan doctorshealthmatter It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself. William Saroyan rehearsingmenlife I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things. William Saroyan ill-healthdespairwriting Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better. William Saroyan good-manidiotmen All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but an unbearable ordeal every day, which can be made tolerable only by mockery in one form or another. William Saroyan comedianpeopledirty Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. William Saroyan wisdommotivationalinspirational Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again. William Saroyan kidschildrenworld The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops. William Saroyan rebelreal When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die. William Saroyan dieswaiting I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel. William Saroyan typewritersnameswhite I sometimes think that rich men belong to another nationality entirely, no matter what their actual nationality happens to be. The nationality of the rich. William Saroyan mattermenthinking I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away from a man his madness without also taking away his identity? Are we sure it is desirable for a man's spirit not to be at war with itself, or that it is better to be serene and ready to go to dinner than to be excited and unwilling to stop for a cup of coffee, even? William Saroyan coffeewarbelieve You must not be unkind, especially when it happens that you're right. William Saroyan unkindhappens Love doesn't have to be perfect. Even perfect, it is still the best thing there is, for the simple reason that it is the most common and constant truth of all, of all life, all law and order, the very thing which holds everything together, which permits everything to move along in time and be its wonderful or ordinary self. William Saroyan simplelovemoving We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in. William Saroyan awfullanguagesay-anything What my children appear to be on the surface is no matter to me. I am fooled neither by gracious manners nor by bad manners. I am interested in what is truly beneath each kind of manners...I want my children to be people- each one separate- each one special- each one a pleasant and exciting variation of all the others William Saroyan specialchildrenpeople No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect. William Saroyan annoyingstillsenemy Of all the things I love to taste, sweetest is the kiss of love. William Saroyan kissingtastelove I know you will remember this — that nothing good ever ends. If it did, there would be no people in the world — no life at all, anywhere. And the world is full of people and full of wonderful life. William Saroyan would-bepeopleworld Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else. William Saroyan competitionmenworld
