What is a hero without love for mankind.

I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now.

Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask.

[Some people think] that storytelling is telling jokes. So they have to be discouraged! Then others think that storytelling-is like an encounter group . . .

Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.