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.

Religion is the opium of the poor.

I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.

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.

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.

The only decent bone in her body was mine.