In the time of your life, live—so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches.

Saroyan’s line is an imperative to live deliberately and ethically within the brief span allotted to each person. “In the time of your life, live” rejects postponement and half-lived existence, while the second clause widens responsibility outward: one’s manner of living leaves traces on others. “No ugliness or death” is less a denial of mortality than a moral aspiration—avoid needless cruelty, degradation, or spiritual deadening in oneself and in the lives one affects. The sentence carries Saroyan’s characteristic humanism: life is fragile, but it can be made “good” through attention, generosity, and a refusal to spread harm.