“What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.”

“America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it was.”

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”

“It's such a silly little thing, the heart.”

“The best things in life are silly.”

“When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe the world, because to live in an undescribed world was too lonely.”

“What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.”

“Facts are lonely things”

“A man is a lonely thing.”

“What silly people wits are!”