Insults are the business of the court.
I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.
An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
If life has no meaning, why don't we create a meaning for it?
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.