The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.

I nearly always write — just as I nearly always breathe.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

It is customary for the recipient of this award to offer personal or scholarly comment on the nature and the direction of literature. At this particular time, however, I think it would be well to consider the high duties and the responsibilities of the makers of literature.

All of them had a restlessness in common.

Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.

A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights.