A story is how we construct our experiences.

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

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

But it isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying. They are refusing emotion because at the end of very emotion are property, money, power. They work and despise their work, and so freeze themselves. They love but know that it's a half- love or a twisted love, and so they freeze themselves.

A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man.