Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.

Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.

I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

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.