As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother.

Anyone can be a fisherman in May.

[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!

I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.

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.