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

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

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.

Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away.

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

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

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

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

I noticed a phenomenon that doesn't often happen toa man: several women turned round as he passed them.

Did you see her again in France?" I asked him.”“No. When I got to France, she was already dead. She committed suicide ...”“Why?”“She often told me she was frightened of getting old...

It's just a bad day, not a bad life.

My mind s a center of divine operations

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.

When you try to figure out what the religious right is, it ultimately comes down either to one man, Pat Robertson, or anyone who believes in a higher being and wants their taxes cut.

Jimmy Lee Baylis was a wise man, and knew better than to talk back to the man who signed his paycheck.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

But beauty is set apart, beauty is cast by the sea, a barren rock, beauty is set about with wrecks of ships.

Was there ever any domination that did not appear natural to those who possessed it?

It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?