It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.

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.

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.

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.

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

paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.

I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.