Lessing on winning the Nobel Prize for Literature

Doris Lessing, having recently won the Nobel Prize in Literature, had some great choice quotes to say regarding the honour:

Oh Christ! ... I couldn't care less...

I'm 88 years old and they can't give the Nobel to someone who's dead, so I think they were probably thinking they'd probably better give it to me now before I've popped off...

I'm already thinking about all the people who are going to send me begging letters. I can see them lining up now.

She sounds like exactly the kind of cynical old woman I would love to have a cup of tea with. Via kottke.org.