Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action.

No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.

He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

The educated man is the man who can do something. The quality of his work marks the degree of his education.

No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.

In order to write about life first you must live it.