I believe in life and in people. I feel obliged to advocate their highest ideals as long as I believe them to be true. I also see myself compelled to revolt against ideals I believe to be false, since recoiling from rebellion would be a form of treason

I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.