I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.

How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to.

What matters most is that we learn from living.

My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.

It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.

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.

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