William Saroyan Great Quotations

He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see for sure what we saw long ago but weren't sure we saw. He paints for the dead, to remind us that - great good God, think of it - we're alive ...

Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one's hunches about somebody one has met.