On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who notified me.

When you really love someone, you must accept their part of mystery. And that’s why you love them.

The doctor used to tell me that every person about to die becomes a music box playing the melody that best describes his life, his character, and his hopes. For some, it's a popular waltz; for others, a march.

My wife's a lot younger than me ... thirty years difference . . . You should never marry a woman a lot younger than you ... Never.

For a long time - and this particular time with greater force than usual - summer has been a season that gives me a sense of emptiness and absence, and takes me back to the past.

But I am a patient man. I can wait for hours in the rain

A man without scenery is completely disarmed.