Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing.

I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps some weeks later, reading it again and finding it flat and empty. Well, the book hasn't changed: you have.

In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful. I myself think a great deal before I go to sleep and the details sometimes unfold in the dream.

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

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.