I don't like honors. ... I've already got the prize: the prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it. Those are the real things.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.

Hell, if I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel prize.

If they do not wish to confer the honour, I am the last person who would wish to receive it.

Don't pay too much attention to that Nobel Prize. They have to be capricious — they have to be. And that means that people fully deserving the award don't get it.

I must confess that if I had been consulted whether to establish a Nobel Prize in economics, I should have decidedly advised against it.

I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.

I can't accept the title, to win it this way doesn't mean anything to me.

I don't want pronouns.

I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter.

People appreciating my performance is good enough for me. I don't care much for awards and have never given it much thought. And anyway, I can't play the games people play to win awards.

I won't be happy until I'm up there, receiving the Nobel Prize.

I don't like my name appearing on the papal candidate lists.