The Heart Is A Place Of Secrets.

I Believe Society Has A Right To Defend Itself, Just As The Individual Has The Right To Attack That With Which He Disagrees.

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.

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.

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.

Only The Poor Are Handicapped By Honor.