I hate to sound clichéd, but I do see life as a journey. How else can you see it?

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.

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.

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

if you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand.