155 quotes
Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.
I love Armenia and I love America and I belong to both, but I am only this: an inhabitant of the earth, and so are you, whoever you are.
Inhale and Exhale (1936)
There is a small area of land in Asia Minor that is called Armenia, but it is not so.
Inhale and Exhale (1936)
For if everybody else is also not what Jesus said he was, what good is what he said?
Sons Come and Go, Mothers Hang in Forever (1976)
The idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.
Sons Come and Go, Mothers Hang in Forever (1976)
It is the heart of man that I am trying to imply in this work.
Seventy Thousand Assyrians (1934)
Nothing has ever been more sure-fire than truth and integrity.
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
Everything begins with inhale and exhale, and never ends.
Armenag Saroyan. A good man of whom the worst that anybody was willing to say, was that he was too good for this world.
I Used to Believe I Had Forever — Now I'm Not So Sure (1968)
I cannot see the war as historians see it.
Love of the streets is the love out of which I see deeply I love God, how near I come to the truth.
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.
Seventy Thousand Assyrians (1934)
Cowards are the nicest people, the most interesting, the gentlest, the most refined, the least likely to commit crimes.
Madness in the Family (1988)
Merely to survive is to keep the hope greatness, accuracy, and the grace alive.
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
A play is a world, with its own inhabitants and its own laws and its values.
Art can no longer afford to be contemptuous of politics, and it appears to be time politics took a little instruction from art.
Something About a Soldier (1940)
I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
If I have any desire at all, it is to show the brotherhood of man.
Seventy Thousand Assyrians (1934)
The purpose of my life is to put off dying as long as possible.
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
Nobody seemed to be interested in anything except making money.
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)