I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

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

I often feel like a dinosaur. I don't get the technology thing at all. I was on the Internet not long ago for Barnes and Noble, and people were ringing up from all over the world - Australia, Canada, France. I experienced it as an informal chat, which was pleasant, but I couldn't quite take it in. It had a strong element of unreality. I can't be bothered to switch to a computer at my age, though I might get along with e-mail, which sounds appealing.

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought at that time'. An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate