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The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.

I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.

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My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies.

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.

Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.

When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'

What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula.

We like to think we can solve everything, but we can't always.

I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.

I do have a sense, and I've never not had it, of how easily things can vanish.

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