I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laugher to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed.

Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student.

I had long known that there was something about me that was either violent or frightening for some reason. In certain three-sided clothing store images I had f…

I was four years old, and had long since reasoned that it was folly to expect the big things from people. It was enough to get the little things. The biggest t…

:the passion of laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmities of…

Pour ce que rire est le propre de l'homme.

'He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.'