My Kind of Crazy, Wonderful People Quotes

“I wanted to know her the way a bee wants to know a great bright flower.”
― William, Saroyan, My Kind of Crazy, Wonderful People

“In August and September and October, because of something inexplicable, atmospheric if you like, they were splendidly one, melody and counterpoint, precisely, perfectly, and the dream of eternity was not a fantastic dream.

Things happen. They happen subtly, quietly, strangely. Everything for a moment is thus: then when one looks again, everything is changed and is now THUS: a new configuration, the blood thus, the earth thus, and the meaning of life thus. There is nothing you can do about it.

They did not quarrel. The girl did not get sick and die. She did not run off with another young man or with an older rich man.

All of a sudden, the melody was silenced, the counterpoint faded away. It was November.”
― William, Saroyan, My Kind of Crazy, Wonderful People