对于自己没有获得2009年诺贝尔奖的反应

I do not think anything that I have done is of any interest to the general public.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.

"We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game."

We cannot choose the times, but we can choose how to respond to them.