“The early years were so packed with everything that one year seemed li...” — William Saroyan Quote

“The early years were so packed with everything that one year seemed like like a very long time, as of course it was. It is only when the years begin to repeat themselves that they seem to be gone almost instantly.”

“After I was settled, I walked down the hill and came to a place with fine gardens inside a high metal picket fence, and as the gate was open I went in.”

“Well, some places are happy places and some aren't, and that's pretty much all you can say about the matter. But if you think on it, you soon discover that no place is”

“Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.”

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

“You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.”

“How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,”

“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.”

“Step smack-flat into”

“However, it would take several days before Ana Magdalena became aware that the changes were not to the world but to herself. She had always gone through life without looking at it.”

“Anything can go wrong, but you can't think about it all the time. You have to enjoy every moment.”

“Since you exited from my life story, it seems as if time stands still, and my soul has become trapped in that very moment. It's like a coiled spring that can extend and stretch, but ultimately, it always returns to its original shape—back to that frozen moment in time.”