Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are in English, the su….

What a people talk about means something. What they don't talk about means something..

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

What do you mean, what's the matter with him? Nothing's the matter with him, everything's the matter with him, the same as it is with everybody else.….

The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind..

Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality..

Remember that every man is a variation of yourself.

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness..

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure..

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 tru….

In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek g….

In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today..

I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whos….

I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. ….

We get very little wisdom from success, you know..

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited..

I care so much about everything that I care about nothing..

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 ….

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….

Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half a man, and there will always be pain in the wor….

Be grateful for yourself...be thankful..