It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.

Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.

September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

Small things amuse small minds.

I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town.

Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment.