Quotes from William Saroyan

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant

No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.

If you're alive, you can't be bored in San Francisco. If you're not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life.

Live, for this is the time of your life.

Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.

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.

Kids are always the only future the human race has.

The events of life have never fallen into the form of the short story or the form of the poem, or into any other form.Yourown consciousnessisthe only formyouneed.

I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.

Be grateful for yourself...be thankful.

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 delight and mystery of it."

I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.

Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.

There's a pretty woman for ever lucky man in the world: every man in the world is a lucky man if he only knew it, so why waste time?

Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.

Of all the things I love to taste, sweetest is the kiss of love.

I love the bicycle. I always have. I can think of no sincere, decent human being, male or female, young or old, saintly or sinful, who can resist the bicycle.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it.

Every man in the world is better than someolne else and not as good as someone else.

Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so they can see their kids. They're very brave.

Every man in the world is better than someone else, and not as good as someone else.

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

It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.