it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.

And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.

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.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.