In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.

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.

I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.

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.

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.

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

Insults are the business of the court.