What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.

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.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

Write truthfully, write from the heart, and your words will live.

You can't live in the world without an idea of the world, but it's living that makes the ideas. You can't wait for a theory, but you have to have a theory.

I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there.

Sometimes it take courage to leave.

The only place where David Duke and I are alike is we are both wizards under the sheets.

I'm a mom first, a singer second.

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

I understand that Donald's [Trump] been strongly supported by the NRA. The gun lobby's on his side. They're running millions of dollars of ads against me.

Swans are majestic, beautiful looking creatures. With really ugly temperaments.