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

— William Saroyan

Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.

— William Saroyan

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

— William Saroyan

How do you write? You write, man, you write, that’s how… If you practice an art faithfully it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up.

— William Saroyan

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant

— William Saroyan

I believe there are ways whose ends are life instead of death.

— William Saroyan

I care so much about everything that I care about nothing

— William Saroyan

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

— William Saroyan

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

— William Saroyan

Of course if you like your kids if you love them from the moment they begin you yourself begin all over again in them and with them.

— William Saroyan