If life has no meaning, why don't we create a meaning for it?

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.

It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.

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

Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.

Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.