I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.

"Death by love is fairer by far than death by illness", said Amenhotep III.

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.