All true literature rises from this childish, hopeful certainty that all people resemble each other.


My Father's Suitcase: the Nobel Lecture (2006)


All true literature rises from this childish, hopeful certainty that all people resemble each other.

All true literature rises from this childish, hopeful certainty that all people resemble each other.

All true literature rises from this childish, hopeful certainty that all people resemble each other.

All true literature rises from this childish, hopeful certainty that all people resemble each other.