The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

Happy is he who can give himself up.

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

The heart is a place of secrets.

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

Insults are the business of the court.

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