Nobody, but nobody, is going to tell me I'm not the most. I am. I was the most when everybody else was struggling bitterly to become a little.

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 more you know, the less you need.

The aesthetic is an individual rather than a societal concern.

The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.

All that we got here is American made. It's a little bit cheesy, but it's nicely displayed.

Make a mess. Clean it up.

Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.

Shallow men believe in luck.

When forced to pick between truth and legend, print the legend.

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

Neither your family nor your culture gave you your personality. You created it yourself.