When there's a war, people get married.
As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.
I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
What I did have, which others perhaps didn't, was a capacity for sticking at it, which really is the point, not the talent at all. You have to stick at it.
Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.
Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.