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.

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

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

I just have two daughters and a grandson. So not a big family.

A man without scenery is completely disarmed.

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.

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