Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.

Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.

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

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

For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

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