Live, for this is the time of your life.

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."

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

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 make, and to give.

Be grateful for yourself...be thankful.

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

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

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

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

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.

The leaders have the responsibility to protect and hold in high esteem the law and virtues of the land.

Only those who do not care, only those who find a way to diminish or extinguish the value of other human beings, survive wars without damage and speak of warrior honor afterward.

The American political experience can therefore be viewed as optimism in the collective.

This is Long Island, land of the rushed, home of the stressed.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

We're here to make people feel like a million dollars, not two cents.

Most magicians are afraid of magic.

We can't get kicked out of McDonald's! This is like the DMZ of drunk eating.

If you decide to do Hamlet in a funny hat staged in a ruined factory, it doesn't make you Shakespeare.